FOR SCALE celebrates the supreme potential of domestic space.
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🌶️ Featured in THE FINANCIAL TIMES, and THE BUSINESS OF HOME
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Brought together by writer, etc., David Michon, past contributor to ACNE PAPER, PIN-UP, L’UOMO VOGUE, MONOCLE, etc.
He appreciates individual connections!: DAVID@FOR-SCALE.COM
EVERY MONDAY FOR FREE
A not-your-average review of current design tendencies and observations (i.e. critical)
Lots of stimulating furniture and interiors, historic and new
A décor think-tank: new designers of high quality; many broad cultural references beyond décor;
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The archive of “FOR SCALE” (any post older than five weeks ✋)
Special “ANONYMOUSLY INTERVIEWED INDUSTRY POWER PLAYERS” issues, released only to Paid Subscribers
Special objects sold by top tier next-gen resellers, available only to Paid Subscribers
Special constantly-updated list of “FOR SCALE”-admired/approved resellers of décor (Global Décor Source List IS HERE 🌎)
“PRINT ISSUE NO.1” SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT – a 40-page broadsheet newspaper of all original not-online thoughts, designed by STUDIO LOWRIE.
“PRINT ISSUE NO.2” STILL AVAILABLE
You can find it HERE. Made a great splash in N.Y.
FEATURING: JULIO Torres, RICHARD Christiansen, KOUROS Maghsoudi, SHAMU Azizam, DIANA Budds, DEBIKA Ray, ISABELLA Burley, REBEKKA Bay, TYLER Polich, STEVEN Philips-Horst, SAMI Reiss, KELSEY Keith, NIFEMI Marcus-Bello, DAVIDE Biancucci.
On: DOMESTIC LABOR AND THE HOMO DOMESTICUS, UN-CURATING, NIGHTTIME INTERIORS PHOTOGRAPHY, THE DESERT HIMBO AESTHETIC, THE "DEVIANT WOMAN" ON SCREEN AND HER HABITAT, A LIST OF GLOBAL-BEST VINTAGE DÉCOR SOURCES, etc.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID:
“Offbeat, eclectic and opinionated”——The Financial Times
”A savvy name-drop among the design world’s cognoscenti”
and ”For Scale is Substack par excellence: a vital, joyfully weird publication”--Business of Home“Our favorite sletter right now is called For Scale... The look of it is tight, the voice is really fun, and the s**t is crafted with DEEP KNOWLEDGE, CAREENING WIT, FAR-RANGING REFERENCES, a KILLER EYE and a healthy use of ALL CAPS.”--Blackbird Spyplane
“Fabulous!!!”-- Felix Burrichter, founder and editor-in-chief of PIN-UP
‘The best thing to have happened to design publishing.’
-- Sophie Lovell, author of “DIETER RAMS: AS LITTLE DESIGN AS POSSIBLE”
