Commune for Environment: Two LA-based companies create a sustainable range of semi-modular furniture

Commune for Environment


While many designers during NYC Design Week staked their savings on exploring the limits of material and form, Los Angeles-based design studio Commune stuck to their guns for their…

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Stand Alone Mirrors at NYC Design Week: Five designers free the mirror from its wall-mounted constraints

Stand Alone Mirrors at NYC Design Week


The idea of round hanging mirrors with thick leather straps may have blossomed with modernist designer Jacques Adnet’s “Circulaire” mirror—the result of a partnership with Hermés in the 1950s—but over the past two years we’ve seen it bloom even further, becoming both a…

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MatterMade + Roman and Williams: The NYC-based designers collaborate on an imposing collection of wood and leather furniture

MatterMade + Roman and Williams


While many brands looking for a new audience during NYC Design Week take the traditional route of exhibiting at one of the many group showcases, contemporary design store and manufacturer Matter chose to do both—showing…

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Copper Shines at NYC Design Week: Six designers call upon copper as the material of choice for a range of industrial designs

Copper Shines at NYC Design Week


The use of copper in functional industrial design has been on the rise for some time now, especially since seeing it all over London Design Festival last September. We spotted six new products during this year’s NYC Design Week that prove even more designers are embracing the multifaceted,…

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Noho Next 2013: Five highlights from Noho Design District’s most captivating exhibit during NYC Design Week

Noho Next 2013


Always a high point of our NYC Design Week, Noho Design District has fast become a destination for up and coming and established designers looking to introduce their latest work outside the conventional confines of…

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Yeah New York

Gareth Pearson nous offre avec cette belle vidéo « Yeah New York » une belle déclaration d’amour aux rues de la Grande Pomme ainsi qu’à ses passants venant de différents horizons. Une création simple et très réussie à découvrir dans la suite sur la musique « Peaking Lights – Hey Sparrow ».

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Citi Bike App: NYC’s city-wide bike share program gets started with a comprehensive app for iPhone and Android

Citi Bike App


In the past few weeks, NYC-based readers may have noticed clusters of grey columns popping up left and right in nearly every neighborhood in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Those familiar with bike share programs in numerous metropolises around the world will recognize the…

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Herman Miller Wireframe Sofa: Physical and visual lightness in furniture designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of London’s Industrial Facility

Herman Miller Wireframe Sofa


As one of the more exciting seating designs to be introduced to Herman Miller’s already near-comprehensive offering of home and office furnishings, the Wireframe Sofa Group blends a comfortably minimal aesthetic with a visual and…

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Shot by Kern: Seven years of intimate portraits by photographer Richard Kern

Shot by Kern


The thin line between fine art and explicit material has been tiptoed by adventurous artists for generations, but few contemporary photographers expose the alluring and complex nature of the naked female form quite as well as NYC-based ); return…

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Tender Lotto by Seth Kinmont: Explore the concept of value through a winnable artwork

Tender Lotto by Seth Kinmont


Part of the New Museum’s 2013 Ideas City Festival, Seth Kinmont’s new project, Tender Lotto, explores the concept of value and the creation of it. Rather than just a sculpture to be viewed, Tender Lotto…

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