Glow Table II Featured in Inhabitat.

Inhabitat featured our Glow Table II today and we're super thrilled. It's a part of our Glow table series which incorporates LED lighting to add ambience in a room or to illuminate objects within the table.  Read the write-up here or below.

MDC Interiors' Steel and Wood Glow Table Provides Dramatic Recessed LED Lighting

Mike Carpenter of Atlanta-based MDC Interiors crafts gorgeous turn of the century-inspired coffee tables which incorporate the rugged beauty of steel and the gentle warmth of LED lights. ‘Glow Table II’ is comprised of plywood and steel, with glass panels recessed into the tabletop to reveal the LED-illuminated contents of its drawers. The piece is part of a collection of tables by MDC Interiors which all incorporate efficient LED accent lights controlled by dimmer switches. The table’s deep tones and warm lighting create a dramatic focal point for any room.

Out There Atlanta

I had a chance to sit down with Lilly Lampe from Out There Atlanta--a weekly podcast covering food, culture, events, and people about town.  See write-up below and/or listen to the podcast to hear about MDC Interiors' beginnings, sustainable design, and more.

Episode 53: The Carpenter (by Lilly Lampe)

Despite his name, Mike Carpenter didn’t always embrace his design leanings. After forays into computer work, Carpenter realized his calling had been there all along. Mike founded MDC Interiors, a sustainable design company that uses unexpected elements like concrete, LED lights, and built-in spaces for succulents(!). He’s also done some sweet Art on the Beltline pieces (including one for this year) and has had smaller pieces in Scoutmob’s Shoppe.
Listen here or download on Itunes (it’s free!)
Topics include:
His first impression of Atlanta, Atlanta as a creative place, working with pallet wood versus concrete, and making the decision to get a graduate degree in design.

Art on the Beltline 2012

Karen Shacham and I collaborated on the Art on the Beltline project this year.  If you recall, I built a reclaimed chess table last year and decided to change it up a bit this year.  Karen is an amazing Atlanta photographer and introduced "The Couple Series" (a series that captures photos of gay and lesbian couples) as a part of her thesis project while at SCAD.  We decided to paint her black and white portraits and the surrounding space in the photo to create a mural that reflects the environment, as if the people in the portraits are trying to "fit in" to the surroundings.  We were thrilled to see that Creative Loafing used our work as the cover photo in their piece, '2012 Art on the Beltline sneak peak'.  Karen also had the opportunity to discuss the work last weekend as part of an artist's panel and collaboration between the Beltline and Wonderroot. 

To get to our installation: On the corridor, it's directly across from Gordon White Park, just south of the Ralph David Abernathy bridge. Check out the map for more details.