Life cycle in the designers' minds. So the flowers and birds myth. And visual metaphors. And computer-based router in a plywood dance.
Certain lyrics rose from the floor and shows across the air waves at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center last month (May 20-23) in New York, where the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in full bloom.
With nearly 600 exhibitors and 24,000 participants, the four-day trade exhibition, which opens to the public on the last day, is small compared with the goliath Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in the previous month in Milan. But small and ICFF govern the world's major show of contemporary design. This is the United States the most important stage for cutting-edge home furnishings.
And although the exhibitors come from all over the world, designers and manufacturers from this side of the Atlantic is certainly the most inspiring this year.
North American design looks good. Elated experimentation on the screen - and especially more than in Milan.
Independent designers and small companies (the main support ICFF) were behind it much excitement, with young designers leading the way. A number of designers in their 20s and 30s showed an amazing job also sustainable, biodegradable, recyclable.
Among them: Emiliano Godoy, 31, from Mexico City. He is one of the many designers who focus on sustainability, creating products that tread lightly on the environment. He showed the screen is made of stitched corrugated timber. The whole thing - wood, cotton rope, linseed oil-based finish - is biodegradable. And it was made by hand by skilled craftsmen in Mexico - the design of social responsibility to other concerns.
"This problem redefining the original limitations of the project," Godoy said the focus on the environment. "You end up being creative in many ways."
Organic themes also prevail. Flowers make a strong showing as a source of design inspiration. So did the leaves and trees. Plywood also.
And so was Yves Behar. 39 years old Swiss-born design star (the firm, fuseproject, based in San Francisco and the continuing redesign including a Birkenstock, and creating a red lacquered laptop for Toshiba) is now dipping a finger into the world of furniture. He was amazed fairgoers with high-tech LED table lamp for Herman Miller.
The cool thing: It's both light a candle and reading lamp.
Behar mixed color LED light in the head "a bit like a DJ mixes records," as he put it. Slide your finger one way at the bottom, and the LED moves from the warm, golden mood light to a cooler, a blue lamp. Slide your finger to the other direction, and you increase the intensity of light.
source: www.timesleader.com
Certain lyrics rose from the floor and shows across the air waves at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center last month (May 20-23) in New York, where the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in full bloom.
With nearly 600 exhibitors and 24,000 participants, the four-day trade exhibition, which opens to the public on the last day, is small compared with the goliath Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in the previous month in Milan. But small and ICFF govern the world's major show of contemporary design. This is the United States the most important stage for cutting-edge home furnishings.
And although the exhibitors come from all over the world, designers and manufacturers from this side of the Atlantic is certainly the most inspiring this year.
North American design looks good. Elated experimentation on the screen - and especially more than in Milan.
Independent designers and small companies (the main support ICFF) were behind it much excitement, with young designers leading the way. A number of designers in their 20s and 30s showed an amazing job also sustainable, biodegradable, recyclable.
Among them: Emiliano Godoy, 31, from Mexico City. He is one of the many designers who focus on sustainability, creating products that tread lightly on the environment. He showed the screen is made of stitched corrugated timber. The whole thing - wood, cotton rope, linseed oil-based finish - is biodegradable. And it was made by hand by skilled craftsmen in Mexico - the design of social responsibility to other concerns.
"This problem redefining the original limitations of the project," Godoy said the focus on the environment. "You end up being creative in many ways."
Organic themes also prevail. Flowers make a strong showing as a source of design inspiration. So did the leaves and trees. Plywood also.
And so was Yves Behar. 39 years old Swiss-born design star (the firm, fuseproject, based in San Francisco and the continuing redesign including a Birkenstock, and creating a red lacquered laptop for Toshiba) is now dipping a finger into the world of furniture. He was amazed fairgoers with high-tech LED table lamp for Herman Miller.
The cool thing: It's both light a candle and reading lamp.
Behar mixed color LED light in the head "a bit like a DJ mixes records," as he put it. Slide your finger one way at the bottom, and the LED moves from the warm, golden mood light to a cooler, a blue lamp. Slide your finger to the other direction, and you increase the intensity of light.
source: www.timesleader.com
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