06 Tastemaker Awards
Food & Wine 06 November blurb
Mary Welch & Jeremy Pyles, Glass Visionaries
Husband-and-wife team Jeremy Pyles, 35, and Mary Welch, 31, of Niche Modern are creating some of America’s funkiest new lighting designs. Frustrated with lighting options for their Manhattan home-furnishings shop, Niche, they created a hand-blown pendant in 2003. “” to light chef Michael Mina’s new Stonehill Tavern in Dana Point, California. Recently the couple teamed with a Singaporean father-daughter duo to make gorgeous porcelain vases with star-shaped openings.”
– Food & Wine, November 2006
Hailed as, “Glass Visionaries,” Niche Modern’s fearless leaders: Mary Welch and Jeremy Pyles, win Food & Wine’s Tastemaker Award for 2006! The pair are regarded as being part of a small group of “spectacular talents who have changed the world of food & wine by age 35.” What a wonderful write up!
Niche Modern lighting featured in Food & Wine Magazine
Niche Modern lighting design featured in Food and Wine Magazine
clear amber smoke stamen modern lighting
Avroko
Food & Wine 06 June blurb
“Avroko: This New York City design team can make anything from an old library card catalog to a Formica counter seem modern and sexy. Here, as they prepare for the opening of their latest Manhattan restaurant project, Quality Meats, they discuss what inspires them.
What was Avroko’s first project?
The restaurant Public in Manhattan. We own it and we designed it; the chef is our partner Adam Farmerie’s brother, Brad. The design is inspired by old municipal buildings, with mechanied pulleys and walnut wood- a reference to the paneling in courthouses and police buildings of the ’30s and ’40s. A library section with an old card catalog stocks books from the ’40s and ’50s that promote “good living” concepts. Classic bronze post-office boxes hold wine bottles. Regulars who pay a $50 monthly fee get a key for their personal wine box.
What kind of lighting do you like?
We often use candles, since flames move and make a space come alive. As for lights for the home, we like Niche Modern’s collection.”
-Food & Wine, June 2006
We are very appreciative to have Avroko Design reference our handmade work as their top choice of lights to have in the home. Our Pharos pendants are pictured in the June 2006 article from Food & Wine Magazine.
Niche Modern hand made glass lighting featured in Food and Wine
Transparent hand blown Pharos pendant lighting by Niche Modern
Gifts of Good Taste
Food & Wine 05 Dec blurb
“Gifts of Good Taste: porcelain garden vase in bone china, “Starfruit” from Niche Modern.”
- Food & Wine, December 2005 
Niche Modern gets a mention in Food & Wine Magazine! We are thrilled our Starfruit vase has caught the eye of foodies everywhere hungry, too, for great design. See our other modern vases to accompany any table setting here.
