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It's hard to remember the days when the new MatterMade collection *wasn't* inevitably one of the week's biggest highlights. Since it launched in 2010, Jamie Gray's brand has seriously raised the stock on American contemporary design manufacturing. Pieces like Paul Loebach's new table and chairs, pictured, or Gray's own painted plywood storage system behind it, looked especially stunning staged in a former subway entrance Gray rented for the occasion — leftover mosaic tiling and all.