Cold Picnic was founded in 2010 by partners Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer, both of whom have fine arts backgrounds and worked in corporate fashion design—Sung as a clothing designer and Buer as a print designer. The two met in 2006 while studying in Boston and have been living and working together ever since. Deeply influenced by national parks, film, interior design, and art, the couple began collaborating on various side projects in an effort to observe traditional craftsmanship filtered through a modern sensibility. Before long, these projects coalesced into Cold Picnic, a line of textiles and home goods. Cold Picnic’s work explores imagined and misremembered landscapes, as well as the effects of time and the elements on their surfaces.
Sung and Buer design all Cold Picnic pieces in their Brooklyn studio, working with artisans in India to produce handwoven rugs, quilts, and bath mats, and with a family-run business in New Jersey to produce knitted blankets.
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