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Sustainable Folk Furniture, Sculptural Lighting and a Sofa That Inspires a Mellow Mood
Each day our editors will roundup our favorite sights and projects from New York Design Week. Today we cover ICFF, designjunction + Dwell on Design, Wanted Manhattan and NYCxSKYMALL.
Spotlight on Steven Haulenbeek
This year’s American Design Honors recipient (the award was launched last year and is intended to highlight the work of a promising young American designer/entrepreneur) at WantedDesign is Chicago-based designer Steven Haulenbeek. The experimental, interdisciplinary work of his studio is showcased through old and new projects, including his Ice Cast Bronze work—a unique process he developed that carves bronze using ice molds—alongside more recent work in resin.
WantedDesign Manhattan is on view through May 16, 2016.
Playing With Tradition
Montreal-based studio Dear Human showed diverse works, all made using 100% recycled paper. The quirky product designs are often inspired by folk furniture, like the milking stool (shown above on the left) which draws on a form of traditional three-legged stools they encountered at an ethnographic museum in Belgrade. On the wall, patterns and colors combine to form a subway-tile inspired panel system.
WantedDesign Manhattan is on view through May 16, 2016.
Feelin’ Mellow
At ICFF this year, Bernhardt debuted the Mellow sofa by Océane Delain—and after testing it out we can say that it is among the most comfortable seats we’ve ever come across. Made of layered memory foam, the ingenious design features a network of cords that can be activated (see detail below the seat) to customize the firmness of the seating surface. Also on view is the results of a collaboration with ArtCenter College of Art students who were asked to design furniture for adaptable work environments. The result is a playful, clever system of modular soft pieces that can double as seats or tables as well as a set of acoustic dividers that are sleek and abstract enough to look like minimal art pieces.
ICFF is on view at the Jacob Javits Center through May 17, 2016.
Sculptural Light
Haberdashery’s beautiful Leaf lighting canopy is a delicate, customizable system animated by leaves made out of bone china. The sculptural piece really blurs the line between art and design and casts beautiful shadows below.
designjunction + Dwell on Design is on view through May 15, 2016.
tktk
The designers behind Wintercheck Factory, Kristen Wentrecek and Andrew Zebulon Williams, invited 20 of their favorite design studios to participate in a pop-up exhibition exploring design concepts for problems that don’t exist. Learn more about the show in our interview with the duo.
NYCxSKYMALL is on view through May 14, 2016.
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