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New York Design Week 2018 preview: navigate your way through the exhibitions, installations and launches

In the neighbourhood: Joe Gebbia’s modular office furniture for Bernhardt Design

Airbnb co-founder and CPO Joe Gebbia and Bernhardt Design have launched a new collection of flexible furniture for the office and public spaces, unveiled this week at New York’s ICFF. The ‘Neighborhood’ collection is based on a simple building block...

Los Angeles firm Joogii expands collection based on 1990s house music

It’s appropriate that Juliette Mutzke-Felippelli and husband Diogo Felippelli– known collectively as design brand Joogii– name Philippe Starck’s early work as an influence. Starck famously got his start in Paris nightclubs and Joogii also started in a nightclub when Juliette...

Coil + Drift is minimalist furniture with a dancer's spin

Designer John Sorensen-Jolink is obsessed with the notion of home– which makes sense, because for months at a time he didn’t have one. At the age of 17, Sorensen-Jolink came to New York City to train as a dancer. He...

This tiny kitchen won over ICFF

Tiny kitchens rarely get shown off as assets in houses or apartments. But maybe if they were designed as well as the Gali system they would. Created by Madrid-based designer Ana Arana, the Gali is a portable micro kitchen that...

Design bites: the best the Big Apple has to offer for this year’s NYCxDesign

Kartell enlists US creatives to reimagine its ’Bourgie’ table lamp

Earlier this year, Kartell celebrated one of its most iconic pieces - Ferruccio Laviani’s Bourgie lamp - with an exhibition of fourteen reinterpretations by a roster of international designers. This month the project has been expanded further, with the Bourgie...

New York Design Week 2014 preview: the 15 must-see events

Wallpaper* Handmade with Jaguar travels to New York

Wallpaper* Handmade with Jaguar makes its debut appearance in New York during this May’s ICFF with a suitably strong showing from US designers. Todd Bracher, Paul Loebach, Jeff Zimmerman, the Haas Brothers and Mary Wallis and Suzanne Tick are the...

New York Design Week 2013: the highlights

Living up to its mantra as ’the city that never sleeps’, New York threw down the gauntlet last weekend with NYC x Design - an umbrella title for the stalwart International Contemporary Furniture Fair, the up-and-coming contender Wanted Design and...

ICFF 2012 report, New York

Falling just a month after the Salone del Mobile, New York City’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair is often victim to a few repeat performances from international players on the design circuit. Yet, the growing bastion of indigenous designer-makers, burgeoning independent...

ICFF 2011 Report

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York wrapped up another session last week, and while there’s the inevitable overlap with what’s just been unveiled at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, there remains the handful of stalwart US-grown companies...