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24-05-2025
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Elegant Ashtrays, Updated USM Chairs, and New Piercings at the "Shelter" Design Fair
A refreshing new design fair opened in New York City last weekend during the NYCxDesign festival and alongside the long-running International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Titled Shelter, it's a return to a physical show for the organizers who ran the home accessories expo Shoppe Object before starting online retailer Afternoon Light. Among its 89 exhibitors, the fair featured emerging brands working at scales and budgets from collectible furniture to cash-and-carry tabletop objects. It also included a few stalwart brands doing something surprising and a section from the producers of Jonald Dudd, an annual presentation of irreverent and pleasingly weird furniture and lighting. I went to check it out with photographer Rebecca Smeyne and to select a few favorite objects in the show. Here are a few things we liked. My vote for best in show was Likeminded Objects, the studio run by Elise McMahon in Hudson, New York. I'm a fan of her fabric patchworks, wire armatures, and other bright collages of rough-and-ready materials. A pair of stoneware sconces by Ember Studio anchored one wall at Colony, the New York gallery/co-op run by Jean Lin. Alara Alkan Studio at Colony Fort Standard did what they do best and showed off some creative new cabinet pulls in various finishes. Clothing brand Noah continued its forays into furniture and home decor with a set of quilts by Leslie Opp-Beckman. Leslie Opp-Beckman at Noah Her textiles are woven from Noah's dead stock fabrics. USM's modular system at Shelter A recently founded San Francisco company called Murmmr debuted a collection of heavy glass ashtrays. Extinguish whatever you've been burning—we opted for palo santo at the fair—and mesmerizing snakes of smoke circulate under the glass bells. The dichroic glass version was by far my favorite. Ladies and gentlemen, Jonald Dudd. This year, the exhibition of irreverent objets featured pleasingly awkward assemblages of odd materials that, in one way or another, add up to furniture. It was a parade of odd objects led by a hot dog stand, and for some reason, merch included tie-dyed 'Grateful Dudd' T-shirts. (That blue tarp inflates and deflates as if breathing, BTW. It's a very Laura Palmer chaise?) Teddy Breedlove at Jonald Dudd My top work among the outré ensemble was 'The Quilted Lamp' by New York designer Teddy Breedlove. Availableitems at Shelter I stopped to snap a photo of the finials that top this amazingly odd postmodern bookshelf from Hudson Valley shop Availableitems. New York studio Bond Hardware is known for its tastefully gothy jewelry and accessories, but at Shelter they also showed home-scale objects, including a lounge chair and a mirror, as well as porcelain lighting designs by Natalia Landowska and stone and resin work by Marcus Vinicius De Paula.
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21-04-2025
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Meet the Emerging Designers From 2025 ICFF's Launch Pad at WANTED
When the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) returns to New York City's Javits Center on May 18-20, 2025, its thematic focus, 'Designing in Harmony,' will emphasize craftsmanship, sustainability, and multicultural design. About 20,000 square feet of the ICFF show floor is dedicated to WANTED, a feature of the fair that includes the international Launch Pad platform for emerging designers introducing new concepts and showcasing prototypes of furniture, home accessories, and lighting. We're excited to help present this year's design talent as the media partner for Launch Pad at WANTED. Take a peek at the 2025 Launch Pad designers below. The cherry-and-maple ButtonBack chair was designed and built as a collaboration between Aileen De La Ree Valencia and Nush Wadia. APPRT2 is a product design studio based in Réunion Island, France. DUSKSHAPED produces contemporary sculptural objects in metal. FlatFlat is an aluminum furniture collection designed to fit into standard shipping boxes. All pieces are laser-cut in the United States and fabricated in New York. Hannah Via is a multimedia artist based in Queens, New York. The tufted sconce reimagines traditional lighting, adding softness, texture, and color to a typically rigid, utilitarian object. JLF Design Studio is a creative collaboration between husband-and-wife team Minsu Jang and Soojin Lee. Konstantinos and Maria Chadoulos founded Mockinbird Studio, a workshop specializing in custom wood creations, in Larissa, Greece. Palm Paramee Panchaphalasom is a designer from Bangkok, Thailand, now based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is a senior studying BFA Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Indian industrial designers Ridima Jain and Manav Singla bring a shared vision to Ridezign—to make the ephemeral feel eternal. The sculptural Tesser lighting collection is inspired by fleeting glimpses of illuminated lives through New York City's skyscrapers. Sam LaRocco is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati's DAAP Industrial Design program. The Puff-Ply collection mixes nontraditional building materials with common industrial practices. Studio NAWA is a new creative partnership between Alina Nazmeeva and John Wagner, based in Chicago. STUDIO BINDRI, founded by Indonesian-born Balqis Indriyani, is an industrial design practice rooted in the fusion of artisanal craftsmanship and cutting-edge digital methodologies. Studio Bucky's Portal mirror is inspired by Ireland's ancient portal tombs. Interdisciplinary designer Xubai Li's Knot Knot lighting collection is based on multiple traditional Chinese knotting techniques. Yonathan Moore is a Brooklyn-based architect and designer driven by material experimentation and specializing in handmade collectible lighting and furniture. The Flux room divider is the debut piece from the Flux collection. READ SOURCE
