06 Tastemaker Awards
Food & Wine 06 November blurb

Mary Welch & Jeremy Pyles, Glass Visionaries

Business partners 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!