Oak Cliff Design

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  • Dispatches from the Shelf: Pick One Palette

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    Our editors independently select every product we feature. When you buy through our links, Oak Cliff Design may earn a commission at no cost to you. How we’re supported Most rooms that miss are trying to speak five languages at once. A little Scandinavian birch here, a burnt orange pillow there, a walnut credenza, a…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: The Corner You Walk Past

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    Our editors independently select every product we feature. When you buy through our links, Oak Cliff Design may earn a commission at no cost to you. The essay bit Somewhere in your house there is a corner doing nothing. Beside a window, at the dead end of a hallway, in the two feet between the…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: Someone Else Paid Retail

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    This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. The essay bit The best mid-century furniture in America is not in a store. It is in somebody’s apartment, lightly scuffed, about to…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: Look Up

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    Our editors independently select every product we feature. When you buy through our links, Oak Cliff Design may earn a commission at no cost to you. How we’re supported The fifth wall Stand in a 1958 ranch and look up: beams, planking, warm wood doing quiet work overhead. Stand in a new apartment and look…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: The Wood Decides

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    This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. The wood decides Every mid-century room makes one decision before all the others, and most people make it by accident. The wood. Teak…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: Teak Forgives

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    This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend pieces we would put in our own homes. Teak is the reason so much mid-century furniture is still around to argue over. The oils that made it a shipbuilder’s wood also…

  • Dispatches from the Shelf: The Room You Keep for Yourself

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    When you buy through our links, Oak Cliff Design may earn a commission at no cost to you. How we’re supported The essay bit There is a corner of your house that has never appeared in a photo. Nobody compliments it. Nobody sees it, except you, most nights of the week. This week we published…