Kyle and company did a great job of setting up the Use Me show. I’m incredibly happy with how the Secret Passageway Switch looked up on the brick.
If you pulled back on Great Expecatations you turned on the light.
The Noho Design District was the place to be this year for Design Week. Tons of great shows within a few blocks of each other, about a dozen in The American Design Building at 45 Great Jones alone.
McMasterpieces was a very fun exhibit and Lindsey Adelman’s work is so amazing, but I was primarily there for the American Design Club’s Use Me show. I had the extreme pleasure of showing my Secret Passageway Switch among all of the incredible designs.
Design Week is still pretty much a blur, but it was fantastic. The Model Citizens show was fantastic. Not only was the Chelsea Art Museum one of the greatest spaces to show at, but it could hold over 90 amazing designers and artists. One of the best shows I’ve ever been a part of.
The Model C show is also getting a lot of great press:
Inhabitat
Cool Hunting
New York Times
New York Magazine
Design Milk
Thank you Mika, Kris, and Tiffany for making it such a great experience.
I just saw the space for the Use Me show at 45 Great Jones St. It is going to be fantastic. Do not miss this one.
And last but not least for Design Week, Break-Down: Design In Your Hands. “StyleFactory.com, Design Milk and Bobby Berk Home present an interactive design exhibition where you can make design happen, LIVE! Party-goers can influence the products that StyleFactory will produce by voting for their favorite design using social media and mobile devices.”
My Jackie/Marilyn Frame is up for voting.
Bobby Berk Home Soho
59 Crosby Street
New York, NY
Saturday, May 14 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Next up for Design Week, Use Me. The American Design Club is holding its 6th show, “an exhibition by 45 young American designers of unapologetically functional objects, each of which exhibits a strong sense of purpose, intelligent use of materials, and the ability to do one thing extremely well.” The list of designers showing is pretty impressive, I’m honored to be among them.
I will be showing the Secret Passageway Switch, and it will be for sale.
The American Design Building at Great Jones Lumber
45 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
Friday May 13 – Monday May 16, 12PM to 7PM
There is a lot of great stuff going on. First up, Design Week. I’ll be displaying and selling Jar Lamps (both bourbon and walnut) and Turned Mallets at Model Citizens. If this year is anything like last year, it is going to be incredible.
Chelsea Art Museum
556 W 22nd St.
New York, NY 10011
May 13 - 15
Apartment Therapy just posted the recap of last week’s Meetup. It was a great event, and everyone at AT is a real class act. Thanks again Maxwell and Herma.
If you haven’t checked out one of these Offline events yet, I highly recommend it.
Next Wednesday (the 10th) I will be giving a short talk about Lake Log Lamps and my experience with this year’s Apartment Therapy Designer Showcase. AT holds these fantastic monthly Meetups, there are typically two or three short talks (about 5 minutes) by new/student designers and then a headlining established designer. There is wine and cheese and all of that.
The other two opening speakers are designers who were in the Showcase as well, Charles Constantine (Life Goes on Until it Doesn’t) and Jeremy Pickett (Brann Pendant Lights). The main event will be Kevin Sharkey, Senior Vice President and Executive Editorial Director, Decorating, and Executive Creative Director, Merchandising for Martha Stewart Living Omninedia, Inc. (that’s some title).
If you can make it, please come on by.
