Eric Trine Los Angeles studio
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At left is a Staycation lounge chair, from Trine’s 2013 collaboration with Austin designer Will Bryant. “We were both in grad school in Portland and became friends, and we decided to do this collaboration that was about shucking off the negativity of grad school and just having fun. For me, it changed my entire trajectory with design. I was thinking way too hard and was very averse to color at the time. And then I got together with Will and everything is wiggles and squiggles and joy. It was a huge turning point for me.”