Lampworks

The last few months in the dps office were spent excitedly putting together a wine and cheese tasting event to celebrate our fall window vignette in a New York lighting center. We were approached by Lampworks to be a part of their Designer Showcase. With the dp studio collection starting to gain recognition, you can imagine that we were thrilled with the opportunity! The wine and cheese event, which happened October 16th, was the perfect venue to do more than talk furniture. With Raven’s amazing food displays accompanying the incredible wines and catered plates, all of which were organic, guests found more than just the furniture to be inspirational.

If you missed the event, please stop by the Lampworks Showroom at your own convenience to see our display. You’ll receive an exclusive look at the brand new Concave Chest, our latest product to coordinate with the very successful Concave Armoire. Now on display as part of our fall window vignette, the Chest continues to bring versatility and style in eye-catching colors. The Chest can be viewed alongside our most popular pieces, including the visually stimulating visually stimulating Luxe Sofa Table, featuring a Macassar ebony inlay top. Other items include the Wave Tiles, installed with wall-mounted antique sconces; the graceful Hand-Tufted Lotus Rug; the lime Tt & Viv triangle ottoman; and the oval Otto High Table, which boasts a walnut burl inset top and cream lacquer reveal. For more information on dp studio and the featured products, or to see the full collection, visit dpstudiousa.com.

To make an appointment with a showroom rep, please call 212.308.8390; or visit our vignette at Lampworks through the end of November.

Lampworks | 231 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022 | 212.750.1500

Cheese Tasting

The following is a piece written by Raven, our designer, organic guru, and to our surprise, a fantastic foodie. Bon appetit!

About a month ago we had a meeting about the cocktail event we threw at the Lampworks showroom last Thursday. We decided on a caterer serving local upstate and organic/sustainably harvested fare. When it came to a discussion of cheese and fruit platters, I found my arm flailing up in the air to volunteer for this job. I had visions of grapes suspended in air on invisible threads hanging like chandeliers in the lighting showroom; my mind was spinning and everyone looked at me with blank faces, slow to acknowledge my task.

To begin, we had a wine tasting the night before to select the best organics available to us. Diane buys Bonterra by the case for her casual drinking and entertaining, so that was definitely in. The next day I headed out with my shopping bags to the farmers market in Union Square, only to find it closed. My second favorite place to select fine cheeses is actually Whole Foods. Their selection is quite astounding and they do a great job of stocking local artisanal cheeses that really can out-do their brethren across the ocean. Though I could not find my favorite item that they sometimes carry (Sweat Grass Dairy’s Green Hill – the best Camembert I have ever had), but I had several other excellent cheeses to choose from. I chose to focus mostly on goat and sheep cheeses (although rarely introduced to public gatherings in any other form than the standard goat cheese log) due to the findings connecting a significant global warming cause to cows. I selected a coarse-ground pepper encrusted goat cheese round, Cowgirl Creamery’s award winning Mt Tam, Blythedale Farms Vermont Camembert, Cypress Grove’s otherworldly Humboldt Fog (I will also add that their lavender infused ‘Purple Haze’ is also incredible), and of course, Parmigiano Reggiano. To accompany this selection of cheeses I walked through the cracker aisle picking up poppy-seed cheese twists, rosemary wafers and other seeded crackers in a variety of forms and colors. This season is mostly known as the pear and apple season of fruit, which I threw in alongside pomegranate, black mission figs and Valencia oranges.