Taste and Placemaking in the Hudson Valley

Through their shop Available Items—and now, their exhibition “Sense of Place”—Chad Phillips and Kristin Coleman cultivate a design scene beyond the city.

Issue 08: “Out to Pasture” is presented by East Fork.

By Alex T. Williams

When I was first coming up around the New York design world in the early 2000s, the energy centered on limited-edition objects, conceptual provocation, and a downtown scene where design bled into art, fashion, and performance. It was the era of Tobias Wong hacking early iPhones into…