Each day our editors will roundup our favorite sights and projects from New York Design Week. Today we cover Tribeca Design District, Sight Unseen OFFSITE and Maharam x RISD’s STEAM Fellowship.
STEAMxDESIGN
Since 2012 Maharam has been funding summer internship opportunities for RISD students to use their design training to affect public policy initiatives around the world. The Maharam STEAM Fellowship in Applied Art and Design places students in governmental and non-profit organizations in the United States and abroad in organizations like the Mayo Clinic, US Department of State and World Economic Forum, encouraging young designers to consider design for social impact while “strengthen[ing] the role of visually acute critical thinkers and problem solvers in helping to tackle large social issues and improve public policy.” On a rainy Friday afternoon Maharam celebrated five years of the Fellowship by inviting a group of recent fellows to share their projects, demonstrating the ways that even small drops of design can ripple out and have a transformative impact for both organizations and the communities they serve.
For more information about the Maharam STEAM Fellowship in Applied Art and Design.
All Pink Everything at Colony
For Tribeca Design Night, Colony Design Co-Op opened the airy space to present their Pink pop-up featuring works by the likes of artists and designers such as Hiroko Takeda, Meg Callahan and more.
Check out the Pink Pop Up at Colony Co-Op, 324 Canal St.
Object as Sculpture
Patrick Parrish Gallery in Tribeca hosted their curated exhibition of work by designers Pettersen & Hein (pictured above), Kasper Kjeldgaaard and Maria Brunn & Anne Dorthe Vester titled “If It’s a Chair"—the show works around the grey around between art and design by "exploring what happens when art operates out of a functional parameter and design works as a mere sculptural presence in a room design”.
“If It’s a Chair” runs at Patrick Parrish Gallery on 50 Lispenard Street through June 6th.
Jose Zanine at R & Company
R & Company’s Design Week exhibits presents a retrospective collection of works by Brazilian artist, designer and architect Jose Zanine. Originally working in architectural scale modelling and plywood production, his later years in life were dedicated to creating furniture and architectural works that promoted Brazilian forest conservation—whenever possible, Zanine would either create works from trees that had already fallen or would plant one tree for each one he used.
Works by Jose Zanine at R & Company, 82 Franklin Street, runs through June 23rd.
Just for Fun
JOIN Design’s “Reflect” Exhibition
Work by Julie Thevenot
Aside from all of the beautiful functional objects at Sight Unseen OFFSITE, there were also some more indulgent must-see pieces within the scope of the show, like this amazing mini credenza (pictured above), part of Seattle-based JOIN Design’s “Reflect” installation. Other standouts include artist Julie Thevenot’s sculptural objects for the outdoors using what we might call “disco chainmail” (pictured left) as well as the mesmerizing display of many of Tetra’s high-class smoking apparatuses (below).
Sight Unseen runs through Monday, May 16th on the 15th Floor of the Grace Building, 1114 Ave. of the Americas.
Pipe for Tetra Shop
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