MoCo Loco recently interviewed Architect Upe Flueckiger about his Lubbock, Texas home that was built for $51 a square foot. It is interesting to read about his inspirations and point of view regarding the design of his home. While Upe tries to avoid being grouped into the whole modernist category, its obvious that his style coincides closely with other modern homes. While he doesn’t go too closely into detail about the methods he used to reach the $51 a square foot price point, it is interesting to note that it is far below any of the other modern prefab homes that claimed to be the answer to affordable modern housing.
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Leather wiz kid Jason of MAKR has finally gotten around to launching an online store. He has some great looking leather goods as usual, you really have to appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into all of the pieces. If you remember we did an interview with him a while ago when he was first starting out. Looks like he is making some good steps toward his goal of MAKR sustaining him financially. So if you are looking for a wallet or card holder, get out there and support the little guys.
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The guys from Furni have been making the rounds in the blogs lately, starting over at cool hunting and then over at joshspear.com. After seeing some of their work, and being very impressed with the pricing, I decided to get together with them for an interview. They were kind enough to take a time out to talk about some of the challenges to designing affordable modern furnishings, and what they are doing to join in the affordable modern revolution. They also hinted at some great new products that they should have rolling out very soon.

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It’s no secret that CB2 is one of the big hitters when it comes to sources for affordable modern furniture. I think its always interesting to find out the story behind the company, and aparently so does the crew over at Apartment Therapy. They recently sat down with Marta Calle, the Product Manager at CB2, and asked her a few questions. Check out the full 1/2 hour audio interview, or text highlights here.