Josh Metersky and Aiden Bowman Team Up to Form New Design Venture Trueing

“You true a wheel to make sure it’s perfectly round,” says Josh Metersky, explaining the engineering term that he and his boyfriend, Aiden Bowman, chose when naming their design firm. Bowman finishes the thought: “It’s making something into its intended shape.” The moniker is fitting considering their slick, highly edited output. Metersky, a mechanical engineer who cut his teeth working for New York lighting designers Ladies & Gentlemen Studio and Bec Brittain, and Bowman, an alum of AD100 firms BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and wHY Architecture, founded Trueing more than three years ago when they entered a glass-and-brass table lamp into a design competition. Their piece didn’t win, but when images appeared online, sales inquiries started rolling in. Since then, the duo has designed hooks made from leftover dichroic glass, with no visible screws; terrazzo-inspired mirrors; and an array of colorful glass light fixtures—some made of hand-bent links, others delicately balanced borosilicate tubes. The works are fun, but no detail is without purpose. “The glass is holding the whole thing up,” says Bowman, gesturing to an Elma chandelier at Trueing’s new Long Island City studio. As Matersky proudly points out, “It’s all very engineered.” trueing.co

Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest