Lately I've been rediscovering the work of Joseph D'Urso. In the seventies when I first saw his work for Calvin Klein, it had all the fresh promise of a new american design direction. Following in the footsteps of his internship with Ward Bennett, U'rso showed us not only a new minimalism, but also a deductive design process that reflected contemporary urban lifestyle. His furniture remains highly relevant today, in our quest for simple fully realized design pieces. They are luxurious in materiality and present a thoughtful ideal about living well, with less.
"If one isn't careful," says Joe D'Urso, "one ends up living in a storeroom".
