NYCxDesign 2022: Highlights From a Whirlwind New York Design Week

Table Of Content

• Union Square Partnership’s Annual 14th Street Mural Installation
• Nuée lamp by Marc Sadler from Foscarini
• Artist Sin Wai Kin on the Power of Transformation
• Design it Your Self – Studies in Generative Furniture Design
• Architecture at Here East In-person Graduate Open Evening
• AKKI® x Samsung: Creating the future
• Mercer Street Block Party at Orior

The Backyard Show, curated by Luft Tanaka (a highly-sought after designer in his own right) will incorporate pieces from more than 20 intergenerational, independent designers and artists hailing from across the globe in the context of a casual backyard get-together. Back on Canal Street, gallery and talent incubator Colony is taking an important step to address the dilemma of counterfeit culture. The Knockoff Show will shed light on imbalances within the design industry with works by Grain, Studio Paolo Ferrari, Hiroko Takeda, and others created in response to the unjust—and all too common—exploitation of independent talent. Developed by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio and Brooklyn-based book store and incubator Head Hi, Furnishing Utopia will be the first installment of the ongoing PUBLIC ACCESS project. Featuring works by 39 designers from around the globe, the showcase will investigate ways in which design can inspire communal acts of sharing.

Union Square Partnership’s Annual 14th Street Mural Installation

Like Milan, New York’s contribution to the annual design calendar is rapidly reemerging as a platform for established brands, dynamic start-ups, independent talents, and thriving collectives. Flat-packed furniture usually gets a bad rap, but certainly not in the case of Bassam Fellows’ latest design for the Asian furniture brand, Stellar Works. Nodding to cafe chairs of mid-19th century Vienna and the cafe culture of Shanghai in the 1920s, the American design studio has created Pagoda - a collection of chairs that mixes comfort with efficiency. Reduced to the essentials, each chair is comprised of just six components; a curved seat, a rounded back and four legs. The seat, in particular, draws from the idea of ‘oneness’ in Chinese culture, while its arching arms subtle reference pagoda gates while imbuing the chair with an enveloping shape.

Nuée lamp by Marc Sadler from Foscarini

The ephemerality of the installation, changing at each moment, felt hauntingly beautiful. My first taste of this would come from Liam Lee’s sculptural felted furniture, which I wrote about ahead of their debut in Patrick Parrish’s Salon Art & Design exhibition. Lee, who is interested in how someone’s home mirrors their psyche, didn’t leave his house for weeks during lockdown. His home was like a seal against the outside world, and the furniture — which riffs on the shape of bacteria and seed pods — resembled things he didn’t think belonged in his home. I was drawn to the free-flowing intuitive shapes of his hand-felted chairs, which seemed to embody the feeling of uncertainty and loss of control many of us felt during the pandemic.

Artist Sin Wai Kin on the Power of Transformation

Design pioneer Patrick Parrish showcases the experimental, colour-drenched work of Dutch artist and designer Bertjan Pot in the latter’s first solo exhibition on US soil. Known for his wild and imaginative masks and lighting designs, Pot’s unique approach to structure, pattern and colour comes together in intricate and wondrous ways. Fueled by curiosity while pushing function and materiality to its limits, Pot wields a wide range of materials, from grass and rope to industrial elements, with an equal delicacy and dexterity. Butler & Co have always presented design in such a totally New York way,’ says Jes Paone, the Brooklyn-based designer and architect whose ceramic light fixtures are currently housed in the architectural hardware showroom’s elegant front windows. Paone’s latest work includes two new pieces in his Desert series, which have been made using a unique fabrication technique pioneered by his aunt, ceramicist Anne Paone. Highly textured and paired with blackened brass hardware, the new Desert table lamp and Desert pendant designs are each one of a kind when realised in the Negative Finish.

Herman Miller Vintage Pop-Up celebrates 100 years of Herman Miller with a rare peek into its archives. The flagship store at 251 Park Avenue South will also offer new and limited-edition products like the Alexander Girard collection of posters. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide, including in our guide to NYCxDesign, email [email protected]. The seminars will be held between three locations on Lexington Ave on May 20th, May 22nd, and May 23rd — see the full list of events here. The project will be on view at Penny Williamsburg hotel, 288 N 8th St. from May 20th — 22nd. The exhibition will be held at Stellar Works’ New York showroom at 304 Canal Street from May 18th — 25th.

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AKKI® x Samsung: Creating the future

Here are some tips on what to see, and even what to drink, as the art fair returns to the Shed. In this guest lecture, participants will have the opportunity to hear from the Community & Equity Program Manager on Lyft’s CitiBike team, Inbar Kishoni. After spending more than 11 years at the NYC Department of Transportation, she now works on increasing access to the Citi Bike system for New York City’s most-underserved populations. To provide insight on ways to increase mobile equity within the very city that NYU students call home, Inbar will share both her perspective and experience within the urban planning and transportation sectors.

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(And for a mental escape, well, just eat a few.) I enjoyed seeing how designers who have a more abstract sensibility went beyond the familiar toadstool. Faye Toogood’s latest addition to her Puffball series of lights for Matter Made, exhibited in the gallery’s new project space, actually looks like one of those puffballs that have been going viral on TikTok. The jewelry designer Silvia Furmanovich launched a new home-goods line with wooden platters that looked like turkey tail fungi, and some veered into the grotesque. Bungalow, a new art and design gallery, exhibited Ellen Pong’s Golden Teacher, a floor light (shown earlier this year in Pink Essay’s extremely excellent “Home Around You” exhibition) with a maitake-esque shade and a thorny stem. Even Jenna Lyons (yes, that Jenna Lyons) riffed on a shroom for a lamp in her first furniture collection, produced in collaboration with Roll & Hill.

These programs include Look Book, a platform for high-end North American studios, and Launch Pad, which showcases emerging international designers. Other features include the Wanted Interiors Lounge, the Schools Exhibit which highlights student work from design schools around the world, and ECO Solidarity, a movement promoting sustainable and responsible design. The newest additions to Sight Unseen’s in-house collection was revealed in an exhibition comprising furniture, lighting, and objects from a stable of emerging and mid-career designers from around the world, all of which can be ordered directly through Sight Unseen. Eschewing a white box backdrop, the exhibition featured new work by 23 designers and studios, displayed alongside the work of France-based painter Heather Chontos. Highlights include the launch of the first furniture collection by Brooklyn ceramicist Danny Kaplan, the New York debut of LA designer Ben Willett, as well as work from hometown favourites Nifemi Ogunro and the design studio Jumbo (pictured). To achieve work that felt more naturalistic, designers often left surfaces a little rougher, revealing the marks of human hands.

Fresh off its unveiling in Milan, Ron Arad’s Matrizia sofa, an innovative soft sculpture made by re-shaping a mattress into a seat, makes its way across the pond. The limited edition sofa is amongst some of the other 2023 novelties presented in Moroso’s Madison Avenue showroom. As part of your account, you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York, which you can opt out of anytime.

In this guest lecture, participants will receive a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of the Google Maps features that aim to put people first. This includes how the Google Maps team uncovered ways to help travelers as they explore unfamiliar areas, let people know where to find LGBTQ+ friendly places, and make it easier to navigate on foot in cities. This lecture will cover how the team approached the design process and advice for others looking to design similar digital experiences for out-and-about discovery and navigation. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the California College of the Arts and a BArch in Architecture from the Glasgow School of Art.