Daniella Ohad

Douglas Fanning: Landscapes

Don’t think about furniture in the traditional context when you look at Douglas Fanning’s furnishings. Think of pieces of architecture, envision open landscapes, shifting lands and supercontinents. This is what the Brooklyn-based designer/maker has in mind when designing his landscape tables and modernist lightings. There is a strong architectural identity to all of his pieces because they […]

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Furniture Design: The Legends – DRIFT

“DRIFT’s first public installation of Shylight (2015) added an unexpected element of surprise to a formerly hidden part in the Rijksmuseum. Commissioned as part of the institution’s years-long overhaul, DRIFT’s design offers exactly what every museum visitor should experience: wonder and exploration.” —Wim Pijbes, Emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam It’s no surprise

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Gaetano Pesce Unframed

One of the most intriguing and exciting design events of 2022 was the opening of Lee F. Mindel’s Galerie56 in TriBeCa. Mindel is an architect, curator, writer, and tastemaker who has created streamlined interiors and elegant architecture for decades with the SheltonMindel team, which have been consistently celebrated. There are few who understand design like

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Furniture Design: The Legends – Franco Audrito

“Franco Audrito, founder of Studio65, was part of a small faction of youth who built a movement by believing they could change the world—not through politics or war, but through architecture and design. Protesting events like the Vietnam War could be achieved simply by sitting on Audrito’s undulating Leonardo sofa, hand painted with stars and stripes to

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Materials and Furniture: The Legends – Hella Jongerius

“It is impossible to overstate the scale of Hella’s achievements. Not only is she one of the first women to establish herself as a global leader in industrial design, but she did so on her own terms without ever compromising values of sustainability, provocation, resonance, research, collaboration, and experimentation.” —Alice Rawsthorn, cofounder of Design Emergency and author

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Between Realities

In Between Realities, the new solo exhibition of French-Japanese duo Aki+Arnaud Cooren held at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, nothing is as it seems; not the materials, not the surfaces, and not the narratives. Through their extraordinary ability to render materials and invent processes, the two create the surrealist perception that stands at the core of the exhibition

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Millennium Modern: Living in Design with Michael Boyd

Connoisseur, musician, preservationist, curator, writer, and designer, Michael Boyd has demonstrated that good taste is not in the eye of the beholder, but rather is a cultural commodity that takes a lifetime to develop, perfect, and bring to the absolute. Living with good taste is a vision, a commitment, a discipline to respect and constantly

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