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Playful presents new Finnish design that focuses on play as an important element of well-being, education, and environmental responsibility. The exhibition will take place in a series of shipping crates repurposed to become a series of small design showrooms at the Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District.

Participants include: Artek, Durat, Jukka Korpihete, Jarvi & Ruoho, Marimekko, Molok, Outi Martikainen, Outo Wear, Jesse Pietila, Powerkiss, Terhi Tuominen, Saas Instruments (Harri Koskinen, Mikko Paakkanen), Paola Suhonen, Ilkka Suppanen, Tuomo Tammenpaa, and Auer & Sandas.

Playful: New Finnish Design
May 15-18, 12-6pm
Reception: May 15, 5pm
Gansevoort Plaza

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In conjunction with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company, Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew, in collaboration with CITE, present 400 Years Later–CITE goes Dutch, an exhibit that attempts to outline emerging Dutch design and the cultural and geographical forces that shape it.

Participants include: Studio Oooms, Frederik Roijé, Jorre van Ast, Dave Keune, Mirjam van der Lubbe, Studio Glithero, Ilona Huvenaars, Willem Derks, Sander Mulder, Lotte van Laatum, Niels van Eijk, Maarten Baptist, Susan Verheijen, Alexander Pelikan, Laurens van Wieringen, Wendy Plomp, Maarten Kolk, Christien Meinderstma, Anouk Omlo, Greetje van Helmond, Lucas Maassen, Studio Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew for byAMT Inc, Kikkerland, Van Esch, Functionals.eu, Royal VKB, Artecnica, and Wabnitz Editions Ltd.

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400 Years Later–CITE goes Dutch
CITE showroom, 131 Greene Street
May 16-June 14th, M-S:11am-7pm, Sun:12-6pm
Reception: Saturday May 16, 6-8pm
RSVP: 400years@byamt.com

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McMasterpieces is a temporary exhibition curated by Monica Khemsurov, who invited New York designers to create finished furniture pieces out of components from McMaster-Carr, an industrial parts supplier. Constantin and Laurene Boym, for example, have contributed an industrial coat rack modified with metal-filled repair epoxy. In Todd Bracher’s Stick, a flashlight combines with copper wire and various diameters of aluminum tubing to form a lamp inspired by walking stick insects and deep sea fish.

Participants include: Lindsey Adelman, Ross Menuez, Constantin and Laurene Boym, Jason Miller, Leon Ransmeier, Sebastian E., Todd Bracher, Kristin Victoria Barron, Paul Loebach, Rich Brilliant Willing, Dror Benshetrit, Le-Bom, and Commonwealth. Pictured here are Coat Rack from Timeless Objects by Constantin and Laurene Boym, a nightstand from Kristin Victoria Barron, 34 Grams from Dror Benshetrit and Stick from Todd Bracher.

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McMasterpieces
Ace Hotel, 20 W. 29th Street, 8th floor
May 16-18, 1pm – 6pm

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