In Common With is a design studio built on collaboration between artists, materials, environments, and our community at large.
Working together, we’re committed to redefining the familiar, by bringing elevated materials, detail-oriented design, and unparalleled adaptability to furniture and lighting for all spaces.
Our founders, Felicia Hung and Nick Ozemba, are longtime friends whose path into business began with a shared goal: to create well-designed items that combined meticulous, made-to-order craftsmanship with scalable manufacturing. With the launch of In Common With in 2018, they debuted a distinct, systems-based design approach that continues to influence much of the company’s catalog.
Founders Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung
Assorted fixtures from the Flora Collection at Quarters
More than any style, genre, medium, or material, however, our trademark is our commitment to creative partnership. Taking cues from our founders—who divide business responsibilities according to their strengths, but play an equal role creatively—In Common With operates under a better-together philosophy that invites peers to participate in the design process. The result: a family of products that are each inherently unique, but share a common intentionality, precision, and eye toward the unexpected.
A ceramic Cadmus shade curing after being shaped
A glass Fazzo shade being heated after fusing embellishments
Ceramic Up Down shades being removed from molds after drying
Sheet glass for Vera Sconce shade before slumping
A ceramic Luca shade drying before being glazed
Clay slip poured in plaster molds
Nick and Felicia’s respect for craft and materials extends back as far as their Montessori upbringings, and, later, to their training as craftspeople working with wood, metal, upholstery, ceramics, and glass.
Today, this perspective—combined with incessant curiosity—guides our company’s collective approach to making. We aim to embrace each material’s natural tendencies, letting its innate characteristics influence the forms it ultimately takes. From there, we begin the process of refining, down to the smallest, simplest, and most delightfully surprising details: dimmer switches disguised as decorative flourishes, colors that shift with the flick of a switch.
In special cases, we’ve partnered with like-minded peers such as ceramicist Danny Kaplan and designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen to create entire collections that represent a shared creative vision and explore our chosen mediums further. Our Terra Collection combines Danny’s organic, sculptural forms with our signature systems-driven simplicity, while Flora showcases classic Venetian glassmaking techniques to honor the beauty of nature.
We’re fortunate to work with a growing circle of expert craftspeople, artists, and engineers around the world, who play an essential role in bringing our designs to life. Every relationship we’ve forged is a true partnership, with each person coaxing pieces to their most effective and exquisite conclusion.
Our own backgrounds in making allow us to take an especially hands-on approach to these partnerships, working alongside collaborators to fine-tune our design and production processes over time.
Whether you have a question about an order, a product, or would like more information about what we do, we’d love to hear from you. You can also explore our F.A.Q. for additional helpful information.
