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New York Design Week 2010 (Update 20-05)
New York Design Week 2010: The Future Perfect: Lift Hold Roll The Future Perfect's show Lift Hold Roll challenged designers to create an object using a clamp, pulley or caster — or any combination of these — resulting in a tightly curated and at first glance, a very functional looking range of furniture, lamps and objects. Limited to these simple utilitarian tools, most designers took the opportunity to add a layer of playfulness through the use of simple mechanical actions, unexpected function, and bright colors. Our favorite detail was the decorative treatment to the metal on Carrie Solomon's"Portable Candelabra" (pictured last). Pictured above: The Future Perfect in Brooklyn,"Ring & Max" by Karl Zahn, and the Lift Hold Roll exhibition space. New York Design Week 2010: Cite goes America For the New York Design Week, the Cite curators Alissia Melka-Teichroew and Jan Habraken had created a 400 square feet "skeleton house" in the Cite shop that they filled with a selection of current work made by renowned and emerging international designers and companies from many different countries and backgrounds, all currently living and working in the United States of America. Shown above is the Terrarium lamp by Lindsey Adelman and below theJuxtaposed Power book shelf by Mike and Maaike. It is the second part of a series of curated bookshelves, bringing together 2,451 pages, 2,390 years, 2,251 wars, 432 revolutions and 90 empires as 7 books in 1 shelf. Seven of the world's most seminal texts on power and its relationship to the ordering of society are brought together and presented on the same level. Above is the Folder Shelf by Daniel Goddemeyer. The Taglieri cutting board is created by Matt Brown, having 3D-scanned his grandmother's very old wooden chopping board which had a big dent, created by the long term use of the round cutting plate. Brown then re-created the shape with a CNC machine and therefore mass-producing the useful traces of long term usage. New York Design Week 2010: ICFF: MICA presents MICA The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) just won an ICFF Award for their stand in the Javits Centre. The project presented is called also MICA, standing for Material Inspired Concepts and Artifacts. The brief was to get inspiration from traditional natural materials that have been around since centuries and are therefore "proofed by history". Dig, Shift, Make... Earthen Play is a natural toy kit designed by Leslie Giron and Heiji Jun, including digging tools, a storage box with a sifting screen bottom and bamboo molds, to introduce kids to play with dirt. Twist, Push, Pull... by Stephanie Sevich and Pati Pogodzinski is an interactive multipurpose object, inspired by a clarinet which uses cork as a fastener. With his project Making non-woven objects by Sitting, Sunny Chong created a felted bag by attaching a plastic bag filled with felting wool and soap to his car seat By sitting on this plastic bag during long car journeys, i.e. applying pressure to the wool fibre-soap mix by sitting on it, a felt bag was created. The Natural Hemp Body Pillow (summer and winter version) is designed by Christi Chung. The Jute Spool Seat was created by Karine Sarkissian, using a traditional technique from Scandinavia. The Green Wood Rocking Stool by Antoine Heath is a simple yet very sweet rocking chair made from green wood (as the name suggests). Core77
"Coat Rack" by Seth Quest & Megan Heacock White
"Gun_Tackle Pulley Mirror" by Barion Garzon
"Desk Lamp" by Evan Clabots, Nonlinear
"Euclid on a Roll" by Sarah Yerkes (Age 92)
"Pulley Cabinet" by Caroline McKeough
"Design Lamp" by Klaus Rosburg, Sonic Design
"Chandelier" by Chris Haynes
"Coffee Table" by Evan Clabots, Nonlinear
"Bookend" by Michael Liu
"Wine Clamp" by Joseph Eberle
"30/360" by Carl Allen
"Raise the Black Lantern" by Chen Chen
"Power Reel" by Craig Berman
"Clothing Rack" by Brendan Timmins & Mark Grattan
"Thorn Ceiling Lamp" by Alex Valich for BSB
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