Breaking All the Rules
Portland designer Angela Adams has hit the big time by following her own eccentric muse.
By Virginia Wright, Photography by Carl D.Walsh
Angela Adams didn't deliberately break the rules when she launched her design company eight years ago; she just didn't know what the rules were. To begin with, she and Sherwood Hamill, her husband and partner, opened their studio not in New York City, but in Portland in a scruffy retail neighborhood at the foot of working-class Munjoy Hill. Then, after a year of farming out Angela's designs to a rug mill, they opened their own rug-making operation in that unlikeliest of locations. But it's what they created there that really stretched convention.
