The Current

The globetrotting spirit of The Current returns this fall in the newest edition of our artbook-meets-magazine that celebrates the circuitous routes of the materials–wood, stone, glass and textiles–that shape our world. From Glasgow to Cairo and Los Angeles to Lyford Cay we traversed desert dunes and island paths, winding rivers and mountain switchbacks, stamping our passports again and again, to capture the magic of the makers who bring these tactile tracers to life and whose work makes connections far beyond borders.

Longtime friends Michael Amato and Eve Ashcraft’s collaboration, a creative partnership that yielded our exclusive range of signature colors and its most recent additions, is often cross-continental with he based in London and she in Upstate New York. So any occasion they are in the same location is an opportunity for creative exploration and reflection.

If you’ve ever been enchanted by the lived-in character baked into the brass of a flea-market find or obsessed over the layers of patina on a well-worn antique fixture and imagined the many lives it’s lived, then you know the undeniably visceral feeling a living finish can provide.

Natural, neutral colors and richly patinated brass have always been essential to our collection and help create a timeless, classic palette. With that in mind, we’ve developed ten new finishes including seven inspired-by-nature signature paint colors – from a lamb’s ear green to a deep shade of mulberry – and three perfectly aged brass finishes that complement and round out our traditional offerings.

While our focus is firmly on designing and developing fresh new fixtures that both reference the past while speaking to the current moment, every so often, we can’t help but notice a renewed interest in one of our earlier pieces. Thus is the case with the Campion, an original in every sense that combines refined mirrored inlays with an elegant filigree surround.