I n an exclusive to PaperCity , design partners Tate De Smet and Chase Rowan announce the launch of Studio Bronco, a design collective creating furniture, lighting, and art installations rooted in Texas heritage and innovation.

“Texas has never had a formal design vocabulary,” De Smet says. “With Studio Bronco, we want to make something genuine that shapes Texas’ design vocabulary.”

The duo’s platonic meet-cute happened at The Adolphus when Rowan noticed and commented on De Smet’s faded tattoo of a chair. It was a meeting with divine foreshadowing, as Studio Bronco’s debut furniture offering is a sleek dining chair. Crafted by skilled artisans in central Mexico with Mexican oak and saddle leather, the dining chair showcases everything that Studio Bronco represents. It’s gritty yet e

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