David Hochbaum: Village in a Can: A collection of miniature, hand-painted wooden houses crafted from homemade frame remnants

David Hochbaum: Village in a Can


It has been frequently noted that there’s magic in miniature gifts. It’s no different with New York-based artist David Hochbaum’s “Village in a Can.” A handmade, ornately painted collection of 11 pieces per can, all are…

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SCALE at Noho Design District

A Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell collaboration celebrating the newest in architectural design
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For this year’s Noho Design District, part of New York’s Design Week, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Architizer and Dwell to present SCALE, a collection of objects and prototypes that explore the relationship of furniture and architecture.

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Architects have been known to use furniture as a prototyping method for their creations and with this as our starting point we’ve collected works from architects and designers—some at the top of their game, others just starting out—including Snarkitecture, Bec Brittain, Katie Stout, Seth Keller, Studio DROR, Kiel Mead, Thaddeus Wolfe and more. From Jason Payne’s “Disco Ball” for Hirsuta to the process-driven “Sprue” candelabras by Fort Standard, we think the final collection captures some of the most interesting intersections of architecture and design today.

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SCALE
Friday 18 – Sunday 21 May 2012
12 Noon to 7:00 p.m. daily
The Standard East Village

And don’t forget to stop by the accompanying Sonos Listening Library while you’re there.