Teo Yang @teohomeTeo Yang is an interior designer who specializes in high-end residential and commercial projects. Based in Seoul, Yang adores modern architecture and custom details and his namesake firm, Teo Yang Studios offers elegant and tailored interiors. He mixes the new with vintage things, and expensive art pieces with sentimental keep-safes - for a design ethos that is fresh and unexpected in today's design arena.Yang has only been in operation since 2009 but he cut his design teeth working on the interiors of luxury boutique hotels and homes in Amsterdam, Berlin and L.A. And he's dabbled in fashion styling for Modemonline.com. His Instagram is rather thematic and sticks to a series of patterns over different house pieces, trinkets and table spreads. And Yang's not an over-poster, so following him means you'll only see the best of what he has to offer - never clogging up your Instafeed.Glosun @glosunponyhairGlosun is a leading fur manufacturer in China. It offers hair-on leather materials for fashion brands and ready-made leather goods With some of the best, high-end labels tapping Glosun quality skins in the past, the firm's rabbit, sheep and cow-hair leather fabrics touch on the collections of Coach, Calvin Klein, and Giorgio Armani. Big name retailers GAP, Mango and Nine West are clients, as well as more recent design collaborations with Marc Jacobs, Kurt Geiger and Ralph Lauren.With an independent design team, new products are developed every season, which are exhibited worldwide at textile tradeshows. But following their (newly launched) Instagram is the next best thing. Both industrial and colorful, the feed is an uncensored inside-the-mill montage. Expect to find bundles of rawhide awaiting processing; swatches of patterned and newly dyed leather; and luxury bags waiting to be shipped-off. It's an inspiring look at the ongoings of a Chinese mill that services some of the world's most renowned luxury brands.Textile Arts Center @textileartscenterNew York's Textile Arts Center has a motto: "To unify and empower the textile community, and advocate for the handmade." TAC is a resource facility - working across two locations - set on engaging people with textiles and fiber in the big apple. In either Brooklyn or Manhattan, visitors can immerse themselves in books and archives from the center's Resource Library or enlist in its Sowing Seeds program, which partners with community gardens, urban farms and parks to build gardens whose flowers are used for natural dyeing.TAC offers weaving classes for young and old too, as well as its own manufacturing arm: dyeing, weaving, printing and machine knitting fabrics for paying clients. Their Instagram showcases current textile exhibits, natural fibers created onsite and by design associates and lots of natural vegetation - the key to TAC's earthy approach to textiles.Design Love Fest @designlovefestBri Emery is the brainchild behind Design Love Fest: a Los Angeles-based lifestyle blog offering DIY ideas, food, travel and entertainment. But her biggest work comes from creating concept campaigns for brands. Amery has been featured in Elle Décor, Apartment Therapy, Lucky Magazine and the Los Angeles times. She also teaches photoshop to fellow bloggers via her BLOGSHOP, which is why her Instagram is so incredible.Expect to visit some exotic places following Bri, too. She is currently on a European tour - visiting Berlin, Amsterdam and Tuscany. The colors, textures and joie de vivre captured by Bri is why this account is a must-follow.
Best Instagrams Of the Week For Design Inspiration [14.05.15]
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May 14th, 2015
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