NYC Designer Brings Bits of Brooklyn to Milan

Next week's Milan Furniture Fair is probably the biggest design event in the world--but Americans are almost completely shut out of it. One exception: Alissia Melka-Teichroew, a young New Yorker and Dutch immigrant. Unlike most young designers, she has struck off on her own: From a kitschy set of rings that went on to monster success, she built a full-on brand, distributing her own work over the web, via her design label, Regretsy. Melka-Teichroew sent Fast Company a preview of the works...