In Common With is a design studio built on collaboration between artists, materials, environments, and our community at large.
In Common With is a design studio defining a new vocabulary for interiors, in which old-world craft meets at-scale manufacturing. Founded in 2018 by Felicia Hung and Nick Ozemba, our practice transforms the familiar by bringing endless curiosity, exceptional materials, and unparalleled adaptability to lighting and objects for all spaces.
We approach design as an interplay: between tradition and modernity, control and spontaneity, uniformity and variation. With our team of expert craftspeople, artists, and engineers around the world, we explore materials and ideas with rigorous care and hone them to their most effective and compelling conclusions.
Founders Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung
A trio of Flora Chandeliers in the Dining Room at Quarters
The result is an evolving family of products that functions as an interconnected language, each combining and adapting related expressions to make a singular statement. They conform to no one style, genre, or medium but share a level of uncompromised creative intention and an eye toward the unexpected, down to their smallest and most delightful details.
Our obsessions with craft, collaboration, and these measured but memorable gestures all originate from a boundless interest in people, objects, and an ongoing conversation between the two. Every product we make and every partnership we cultivate has that in common.
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.
