376: Monuments to Creativity with Eric Clough

<p>This week, I'm speaking to Eric Clough who is the founder of Manhattan-based design firm 212box.</p> <p>Eric was originally from the Midwest and spent his formative years in both Brussels and London. He graduated from Yale in 1999 and founded 212box in late 2000.</p> <p>212box is actually made up of six companies, which are working in different disciplines and different sectors, and they have an incredible array of different projects.</p> <p>They worked in retail with people like Christian Louboutin, Sergio Rossi, Lego, and Erdos / 1436, and enlisting clients such as the von Furstenberg family and Philip Roth for residential.</p> <p>In this conversation, Eric goes into a lot of the philosophy and creativity, and how they merged that with the business aspects of 212box.</p> <p>212box are brilliant narrators and storytellers with one of their projects involving hiding a series of clues and hidden narratives within one of the buildings.</p> <p><br /> This week, I'm speaking to Eric Clough who is the founder of Manhattan-based design firm 212box.</p> <p>Eric was originally from the Midwest and spent his formative years in both Brussels and London. He graduated from Yale in 1999 and founded 212box in late 2000.</p> <p>212box is actually made up of six companies, which are working in different disciplines and different sectors, and they have an incredible array of different projects.</p> <p>They worked in retail with people like Christian Louboutin, Sergio Rossi, Lego, and Erdos / 1436, and enlisting clients such as the von Furstenberg family and Philip Roth for residential.</p> <p>In this conversation, Eric goes into a lot of the philosophy and creativity, and how they merged that with the business aspects of 212box.</p> <p>212box are brilliant narrators and storytellers with one of their projects involving hiding a series of clues and hidden narratives within one of the buildings.</p> <p><br /> Still here? Eric has a little riddle for you:</p> <p>If anyone listening knows of a scented tree, which grows in groves o