ADPRO | Mark Cunningham
Designer Mark Cunningham Dispatches a Triple Threat
For Mark Cunningham, good things come in threes. Today, he announces his new brand, called Marked (which spans, fittingly, three categories: furniture, fabrics, and found objects), his new e-commerce venture, and his new showroom. Taken in sum, these developments bring the New York designer back to his roots—and propel his studio to greater creative heights.
"We're starting smaller, and just taking a step," says the designer, formerly vice president of creative services at Ralph Lauren and cofounder of the much-beloved San Francisco shop March. With the new showroom, and the pieces that populate it, there was a desire to return to certain early inspirations. "I missed being able to put things together [as I did at March]. I was obsessed with trying to keep it fresh and changing. I do it for projects, but it's different doing it on your own. And I think—maybe having been at Ralph Lauren—there's a merchandising aspect that I like."
