Icons: The Letter
Explore what it means to be an icon and what makes something iconic in this quarter’s Letter.
Facing The Giants: A Podcast Interview with our Founder Kate Swanson
Our founder and CEO, Kate Swanson, sat down with Scott Kerr from Facing the Giants podcast to discuss her journey from attorney to entrepreneur and how our radically redesigned cookware competes with the high-end rivals.
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- 05.11.2023 | Celebrating with Rolls-Royce
- 01.11.2023 | Utility Patent Granted
- 20.03.2023 | 100 Years of Iconic Designs
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20.03.2023 | Perspective
Icons: The Letter
Explore what it means to be an icon and what makes something iconic in this quarter’s Letter.
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20.03.2023 | Perspective
Dream Dinner Party: 10 Icons We Want To Dine With
Iconic people - past and present - whose contributions have forever altered the world. Join them at ENSEMBL's dream dinner party.
- 20.03.2023 | Iconic Buildings We Love
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19.03.2023 | Perspective
Kabocha Squash Recipes Inspired by Yayoi Kusama
Known for her her polka-dotted Kabocha Squash, Yayoi Kusama turned the fruit into an iconic symbol of her art. Inspired by her obsession with the squash, we've put together a list of Kabocha squash recipes that are sure to impress.
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15.02.2023 | Perspective
Achieving "Hygge" with Iconic Danish Lighting
While the soft glow from a fireplace or the calm flickering of candles is undoubtedly one way to create “hygge”, it is by no means the only way. Thankfully, the Danish lighting designers mastered the art with soft, glare-free artificial lighting that we now consider to be some of the most iconic lighting designs of the 20th century.
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13.02.2023 | Perspective
The Finer Things: Q+A with Dominic Lamirande
Dominic Lamirande AKA Dom Cooks shares everything from his go to comfort food and catch phrase to his experience on Cook at all Costs on Netflix.
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06.02.2023 | Perspective
The Other 23 Hours
How does our cookware get used we are not cooking with it? Learn how Stackware is designed for more than just meal prep.
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06.01.2023 | Perspective
Break the Mould with Multifunctional Spaces
Everyone has 24 hours. How do you use them? Read about five business concepts that transition from day to night to create electric spaces and boundless opportunity.
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05.01.2023 | Perspective
4 Meals That Are Better As Leftovers + From the Freezer
Make these on the weekend. Enjoy them during the week.
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05.01.2023 | Perspective
Reimagining the Familiar
As we start the year, we reflect on one of ENSEMBL's founding principles: a desire to reimagine the familiar.
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03.01.2023 | Perspective
Ryokan: Transforming Space
Exemplifying the way to transform and transition a physical space.
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07.12.2022 | Perspective
Short-life products are a big problem
Short-life products end up in the landfill, just like plastic. Let's start treating them like plastics. And work to eliminate short-life products in favour of products built to last.
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05.12.2022 | Perspective
Consulting the Stars: Cookware Horoscopes
Based on your zodiac sign, what do you need to start 2023 with gusto? It all comes down to securing the right piece(s) from the the Stackware Collection.
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01.12.2022 | News
Facing The Giants: A Podcast Interview with our Founder Kate Swanson
Our founder and CEO, Kate Swanson, sat down with Scott Kerr from Facing the Giants podcast to discuss her journey from attorney to entrepreneur and how our radically redesigned cookware competes with the high-end rivals.
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01.12.2022 | News
Find Us In: The National Post & The Montréal Gazette
The National Post describes ENSEMBL as "award-winning cookware that challenges the sustainability status quo."
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01.12.2022 | News
Find Us In: Domino
Domino recommends Stackware in their Black Friday Favorite's Guide
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01.12.2022 | News
ELEVATE: The Future of Business
We presented ENSEMBL at ELEVATE: The Future of Business, hosted at the Design Museum in London on November 23rd.
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16.11.2022 | News
5 Reasons to Gift ENSEMBL
If you're searching for gift inspiration this holiday season, look no further, and find out why ENSEMBL makes the perfect gifts for everyone on your list.
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07.11.2022 | News
Exhibition: ENSEMBL in San Francisco
A collaborative dinning experience in our San Francisco Showroom.
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12.10.2022 | News
In partnership with Poggenpohl
Form meets function in the kitchen.
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09.10.2022 | News
Shop Stackware in San Francisco
Exhibition: ENSEMBL brings Stackware to San Francisco.
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04.10.2022 | Perspective
Cook With Us - Recipe for Steamed Lobster, Shrimp and Corn
Get the recipe for this Steamed Lobster, Shrimp + Corn with your copy of Together With Us: A Guide to Modern Living.
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03.10.2022 | Perspective
State of the Dishcloth
Cleaning up can be a dirty business
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03.10.2022 | Perspective
Iconic Innovation: Montréal Stairs
How a simple staircase radically transformed Montréal.
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05.04.2022 | News
We're Joining Positive Luxury's Accelerator Program
Sustainability is built into ENSEMBL’s DNA, but we’re always pushing ourselves to be better. In 2022, ENSEMBL is joining Positive Luxury’s Accelerator Program to measure and improve our sustainability practices.
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24.03.2022 | News
Red Dot Design Awards 2022: Stackware Wins
For over 60 years, the Red Dot Design Award has been a mark of distinction for brands leading the way in design and innovation. In 2022, Stackware became a recipient of this prestigious award.
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15.03.2022 | Perspective
Ten Ukrainian Creatives We Admire
In the midst of conflict, it's easy to forget what's really at stake: people. Presenting a showcase of the unique and resilient culture of Ukraine through the work of ten creatives we admire.
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14.03.2022 | Perspective
The Future is Fungal
For millennia, mushrooms have been revered for their medicinal and spiritual uses. Now the fungi are finally getting their due.
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23.02.2022 | Perspective
In Praise of Preserved Foods
Dispelling the myth that preserved foods are inferior - when in fact they just may be the best option, for you and the planet, during winter months.
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09.02.2022 | Perspective
The Aphrodisiac Menu
What to cook when love is on the menu? 6 recipes featuring aphrodisiac ingredients sure to put you (and whomever might be joining) in the mood.
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09.02.2022 | Perspective
5 Cities that Win at Winter
How can we design cities that not only embrace, but excel at winter? An examination of the physical and social infrastructure that allows citizens to take the cold in stride, so much so that people actually look forward to the dark season.
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25.01.2022 | News
Stackware wins GOOD DESIGN® Award
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, have selected Stackware for the 2021 GOOD DESIGN® Awards.
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08.12.2021 | Perspective
Urbanism + Adaptation: Q+A with Barbora Samieian
Barbora shares her wisdom from a life of design, entrepreneurship, and urban parenting - and why she'll always call the city home.
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06.12.2021 | Perspective
It's Cabbage Season
Cabbage season is here. And we are here for it. (With recipes and inspiration.)
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02.12.2021 | News
Find us in: Bay Street Bull
Bay Street Bull features ENSEMBL and Stackware in its 2021 Women of the Year Issue.
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02.12.2021 | News
Find us in: The Globe and Mail
Stackware Classic4 makes the perfect gift for the festive foodie in your life this holiday season.
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19.11.2021 | News
The Wall Street Journal Recommends Stackware
For the cook who prizes orderliness, WSJ recommends Stackware this holiday season.
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11.11.2021 | News
Innovation in Consumer Products
As consumer expectations of products change, the new demands require innovation - but the way we approach that innovation must change, too. Join us for a fireside chat on the future of innovation in consumer products.
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09.11.2021 | Perspective
5 ways to use Stackware for the Holidays
Whether you’re hosting or bringing a dish, streamline the holidays with multifunctional cookware.
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08.11.2021 | Perspective
Work/Life Balance: Q+A with Jacquelyn Corbett
The serial entrepreneur and mother of three talks to ENSEMBL about cooking, work-life balance, and the meaning of home.
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26.10.2021 | Perspective
Designing Against the Grain of Throwaway Culture
In the 1930s, two industrial designers thought the world would be better off if we engineered products to be thrown out and replaced. A hundred years later, we’re still trying to undo the damage of throwaway culture.
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26.10.2021 | Perspective
Return of the Dinner Party
Let's celebrate The Return of the Dinner Party. Tips for planning and hosting your next great dinner party as we once again look to spending time together indoors.
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29.09.2021 | Perspective
Recipe: Corn + Leek Dumplings
Cook with us. Learn to make Ontario Corn + Leek Dumplings - an unexpected combination so addictive you'll most certainly need a double batch.
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29.09.2021 | Perspective
Recipe: Local Mushroom Hot + Sour Soup
Cook with us. Learn to make Hot + Sour Soup - packed with flavour and a bevy of mushrooms, make it in advance; this is a dish that really shines when served on the second day.
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29.09.2021 | Perspective
Recipe: Milk Tea Panna Cotta
Cook with us. Learn to make Milk Tea Panna Cotta - a delicious, make-in-advance dessert that will simultaneously wow guests and simplify your next dinner party.
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29.09.2021 | Perspective
Sour Honey: good design and bad beekeeping
Bees are essential to the survival of all species, but in our attempts to make them a part of city life, have we missed the mark?
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08.09.2021 | Perspective
Heat Wave
By looking to the past and innovating for the future, better design can help humanity thrive in the century of the heatwave.
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05.09.2021 | Perspective
The Price of Free Time
Modern life allows work to consume our free time. This long weekend, we’re taking it back.
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30.08.2021 | News
Stackware wins House Beautiful's Small Space Awards, featured in Kitchen Issue
Stackware wins House Beautiful's Small Space Awards as the "most clever kitchen storage trick" + is featured in the August/September 2021 Kitchen Issue.
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26.08.2021 | News
Hello, Toronto
Shop Stackware in-person at Sundays, Toronto's beloved furniture brand.
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03.08.2021 | Perspective
There Is Life Here Too
Solitude in the midst of unpredictable chaos enables us to rethink our own lives for the better. As we head toward a vaccinated reality, we’re reflecting upon what it means to build the world anew.
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28.07.2021 | News
Review: Architectural Digest uses Stackware
Architectural Digest tests Stackware and says it is "stackable cookware that saves space and cooks like a dream."
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20.07.2021 | Perspective
Life is Full: Our first short film
ENSEMBL's first film, Life is Full, captures the moments that make modern life full - the moods and motion, beauty and chaos.
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20.06.2021 | News
Hello, Chicago
Stackware is coming to Chicago’s beloved French Quiche Cafe for ENSEMBL’s first ever retail popup
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04.06.2021 | News
Stackware Featured in JustLuxe Father's Day Guide
JustLuxe Magazine features Stackware in Father's Day Gift Guide.
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01.06.2021 | News
Advanced Essentials: The Elevated Father's Day Gift Guide
The ultimate gift guide for Father's Day. Advanced Essentials for the design-forward, innovation-obsessed, tech-curious dads (and fatherly figures) in your life.
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04.05.2021 | News
California Home and Design Features Stackware as Product of The Day
Stackware is featured in California Home+Design as Product of the Day.
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06.04.2021 | Perspective
Intelligent Evolution: Five Modern Innovations for the Post-COVID City
From healthcare to highways, the possibilities for improving our cities are endless. The pandemic brought a renewed attention to the pitfalls of Western healthcare design, recreation, roadways, and the potential of smart city technology to serve and protect citizens. Read on for five design predictions for post-COVID cities, from the experts.
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01.04.2021 | Perspective
Streets Tell Stories
A year after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, public spaces are still the arena in which citizens fight for social change.
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01.04.2021 | Perspective
The Other Side of “Ethnic” Food
Asian food has long been defined through a Western lens. What happens when we flip the script?
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05.03.2021 | Perspective
Women are the Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic
The last twelve months have rocked our institutions to their core. At home and in the workplace, women are steering us to better waters. This International Women's Day, we recognize the contributions of women - the unsung heroes of the pandemic.
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22.02.2021 | Perspective
Celebrating Black Innovation
Black creators are behind some of the most influential work in the worlds of architecture, industrial and product design, and food. Learn how their innovations have shaped your life.
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13.11.2020 | Perspective
Maggie Spicer teaches us how to stock a pantry
If you were stranded on an island, what would you bring to put in your pantry? Maggie Spicer, an institution in the San Francisco food scene, teaches us about the essentials - and how to get the most out of what we have.
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13.11.2020 | Perspective
Creating space: A conversation with NYC architects MABU
How are environments and the objects within them related? What does it mean to bring the “right” things home? ENSEMBL discusses how to create space with award-winning architects and founders of MABU Achitecture, Matt Burgermaster and Lucy Stoll.
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10.11.2020 | Perspective
Seeing Space Differently
In the same year SpaceX launched its first crewed mission, a new generation of graduates are going back to live in their childhood homes. Bedrooms are becoming classrooms, dining rooms are offices. It’s a year of examining how our spaces function for us, reconsidering them, and making space for what matters.
- 09.11.2020 | Creativity and the AI Economy
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08.11.2020 | Perspective
Food Porn: Sex on a Plate
The act of photographing food and photographing sex have a lot in common. From allowing us to live out guilty pleasures, showcase excess, and portray unrealistic expectations - just like its sexual counterpart, #foodporn is here to stay.
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
Off-White: Through the Lens of Coconut Milk
Coconut Milk: the perfect encapsulation of spring? It just might be.
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
This Hong Kong Life
No city encapsulates small space living better than Hong Kong. But how are millennials coping with the sky-high prices and small spaces?
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
The Borderless World of Tom Kha Gai
Where did the delicious, coconut milk-based soup originate? The exact location is hard to pin point, as we learn Tom Kha Gai knows no borders.
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
Pine & Ginger: Coping in the Age of Anxiety
Pine & Ginger: a sweet and spicy cocktail, an island smooth song, and the words that got us thinking: how do we really cope?
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
The Pursuit of Happiness
When it comes to purchasing products, what is a sustainable consumer? What is a conscious consumer? And what are we actually looking for when we say we want meaning in the products we bring home?
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05.11.2020 | Perspective
Renaissance of Makers
Old status symbols fade and luxury takes on a new form. Making the most of our time — or rather, using time to make something tangible — is today's ultimate luxury.
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02.09.2020 | Perspective
The List
A round up of the each month's best finds from across the world and sensory-scapes.
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