HeyJaredTHE NAMBILI EDIT
I’m niCo Robinson — The Heirloom Alchemist. I reupholster and structurally restore heirloom furniture, clean and revive upholstery with a testing-first mindset, and document the inner workings of building House of Nambili in real time.
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Would You Reupholster Your Own Chair? (opens the original)
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I’m creating RE:FRAME, a hands-on upholstery workshop for people ready to understand their furniture and transform it themselves.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="367" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r7CN!,w_1456,c_limit,f
Introducing: Cut to the Chair 🪑🎬 (opens the original)
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Hey folk! I gotta tell y’all about something new I’m doing🤭If you’ve been here a minute, you know I’m obsessed with two things: chairs & film. For a while those felt like two totally separate parts of my brain — until I found myself watching Fallout pausing every 2 minutes screaming “ooooh! that’s gorgeous! is that an Eames?!” instead of following the plot😂So I made it a series. Welcome toIf you love furniture as much as film, this is for you. Every episode features a movie or series I’ve watche
10 Years, a 5-Year-Old Secret, & a Sneak Peek🤭 (opens the original)
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10 Years of HoN 🥳I almost don’t know how to start this one, so I’ll just say it: yesterday was HoN’s 10th anniversary!🎉🍾<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1533" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A
For The Jazz Man: A Birthday Tribute (opens the original)
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It opens with my dad telling me about the summer he caught a random episode of a show called Dial M for Music when he was six, maybe seven years old. That’s where he first heard Sonny Rollins, on a summer afternoon he had no plan to land on that channel. Somewhere in that broadcast, a little boy found the thing that would carry him for the rest of his life.<div
The Room Where We Stopped Being Quiet. (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, on a gray, rainy Sunday afternoon, five women sat in front of Melissa Alexander’s camera. Most had never met before that day. What brought them together wasn’t a casting call or a client brief. It was uterine fibroids, a condition every one shares, in their own bodies and all had a story to tell.I’ll say it plainly since I’m asking you to hear it plainly: I am one of those women.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h
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