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Robert Wilson Creates Dreamy Objects for Hermés and Objects in Metal Inspired by CAD Glitches

Each day our editors will roundup our favorite sights and projects from New York Design Week. Today we look at some of the early openers before the major exhibitions open their doors on Friday.

The Theater of Hermès Home

Robert Wilson is having a great affair with the design world this year. In Milan, the renowned American theater director debuted an asymmetrical LED chandelier with the Italian lighting company Slamp at the Wallpaper* arcade and for New York Design Week he designed and directed Hermès Home’s theatrical presentation. Like much of Wilson’s work, actors executed a slow and precise choreography of repeating movements in a dream-like world of domestic objects suspended precariously, floating in mid-air, and staged in unexpected angles. The installation, “Here, Elsewhere” created a context for visitors to experience the imagery—cheetahs, tropical birds, pattern play—that was the source of inspiration for the collection.

Robert Wilson for Hermès Home, Cedar Lake, Through May 12.

Broom off Broome

British designer Lee Broom is storming New York City’s Broome Street with a one-month pop-up store showcasing over 50 products from his range of lighting, tabletop and interior furniture designs. For the occasion, Broom is debuting the Mini Crescent light, a smaller version of his popular Crescent Light globe sliced in half by a brushed brass fascia, as a pendant and desk lamp. The product is currently exclusive to the US market and it celebrates Broom’s first store in the United States. 

Broom Off Broome, 63 Greene Street. Through June 10.

3D Printed for the OTHRs

Juicer by Everything Elevated and Metal Box from Todd Bracher.

Last night the New Museum hosted the launch of OTHR, a new brand of homewares manufactured with 3D printed ceramics and metals. Creative director Joe Doucet enlisted a who’s who of design talent to create products for the debut collection including a modular desk organizer by Brad Ascalon, drinking vessels from Jonah Takagi, catchall trays from Paul Loebach, a bottle opener from Fort Standard and this beautiful metal keepsake box from Todd Bracher (above). 

OTHR launches online today at othr.com

Growth Opportunity

Within the newly launched outdoor Design Pavilion at Astor Place Plaza, American Design Club featured their latest curated exhibition, Growth. Housed in a tent with greenhouse vibes, AmDC showcased over 50 designs and prototypes submitted to their open call for functional objects that promote and sustain growth. The resulting show brought together a lot of young, up-and-coming designers with very different takes on the typical planter. Between sculptural air plant holders, zen garden arrangements and modular wall-hanging pieces, we noticed a definite trend toward organic shaped vessels—which played nicely with the concept of natural versus man-made. 

Growth was on view at the Design Pavilion, Astor Place Plaza through May 11.

Glitches & Equalizers

During Design Week, The Future Perfect showroom offers two great collections. The front half features collaborative lighting pieces from Ladies & Gentleman Studio and glass artist John Hogan. The two studios worked together to create the “Equalizer” series—a metal lighting framework that can be customized with different glassworks, embracing the idea that lighting can be elevated more to the level of “illuminated sculpture” rather than simply hyper-functional. The back room houses furniture designer Christopher Stuart’s new “Constructs & Glitches” collection, a series of objects inspired by glitches Stuart encountered when designing furniture pieces in CAD, all elegantly translated into physical form.

Future Perfect, 55 Great Jones Street. Through July 2016.