LAST WORDS

Design Weekend

May 17, 2013 Design By Tom Ran
Noho Design District

Photo: Noho Design District

The list of events and parties surrounding ICFF can be a dizzying one. For the next five days designers from around the world have descended on New York to shill their latest creations. Core 77, Designboom, and Metropolis magazine have compiled a list of over 200 events. It’ll take some time to dig through them all so we’ve compiled an abridge version of our own.

Noho Design District – One of the more exciting and unique off-site to take place this weekend. This year NDD expands its reach to include the Bowery. This event is always a great place to discover young talent as well as to see new work from established New York favorites.

Wanted Design – A more digestible event than ICFF that takes place under one roof. It features national and international exhibitors, special programs, workshops and a pop-up store.

Heath Ceramics started in 1948 but since Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic acquired it 10 years ago, they managed to grow the company without compromising its heritage. The San Francisco based ceramic manufacturer is expanding its reach into the east coast by celebrating the last 10 years with a store within a store at Future Perfect.

In celebration of Vitsoe’s launch of the 620 Chair Programme, they’ve partnered up with Dashwood books to transform their storefront into a reading room.

Designjunction, a relatively young but recognized destination during The London Design Festival makes its way to New York for the first time with INTRO NY.

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Collective Quarterly

May 16, 2013 Publishing By Tom Ran
Collective Quarterly

Photo: Collectiver Quarterly

There’s been a proliferation of independent quarterlies and journals in the last couple of years with food themed titles leading the way. The popularity in these titles is driven by people’s interest in the subject and it doesn’t seem to be letting up. But we’re now seeing an emergence of another popular topic taking hold in independent publishing. Makers, crafters, builders; publications that profile the people behind the objects. Titles like Made Quarterly from Australia, Hole & Corner from England, Atlas Quarterly from Brooklyn, and now Collective Quarterly from the U.S.

Collective Quarterly’s distinctive angle is on exploration, not only in discovering the artisans and the way they work but the journey and the land they work from. The publication is founded by three gents from three cities working collectively, from Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, to Middlebourne, West Virginia. The premiere issue will take us to Marfa, Texas, with profiles on Minnesota based Faribault Woolen Mill Company, and Drift Eyewear from Chicago. Contributors include Max Wastler of All Plaid Out, and photographers Kevin Russ and Duncan Wolfe. Collective Quarterly is now accepting pre-orders with a launch date to be announced soon.

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East Village Eye

May 15, 2013 New York By Tom Ran
September / October 1980 issue of East Village Eye.

Photo: East Village Eye

Before downtown New York became a shopping and dining destination for locals and visitors alike, it was filled with derelict buildings, junkies, and vacancies. From Soho and Bowery to the East Village, it was a breeding ground for art, literary, music and fashion from the ‘60s to the ’80s. The movement they created influenced so much of everything that came after. The defunct magazine of that time, the East Village Eye was on the ground to document the social and cultural change that was exploding. As they explain: “Ultimately, The East Village Eye was the monthly record of a time and place in which the radical shifts of the post-Vietnam era produced a reckless thirst for experience and expression that redefined the world we live in today, and has rarely been seen in our culture since.” The list of contributors and profiles were a who’s who of the New York creative scene and beyond; Jim Jarmusch, Glenn O’ Brien, Stephen Sprouse, Eric Bogosian, Barbara Kruger, Rei Kawakubo, Clash and so many others. The East Village Eye ended in 1987 but on the occasion of the Met’s exhibition on Punk, they’ve resurfaced in digital form. Ten issues are now available in pdf form on their site. An archive is underway on all 72 issues. Selections of each will be made over time. via EV Grieve.

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EVENTS

May 9 - July 1

RETAIL

Herman Miller Collection Pop Up

Furniture

May 17 - June 22

ART

Wes Lang at Half Gallery

Here Comes Sunshine

March 22 - March 23

RETAIL

United Bamboo Tsunami Relief

Sample Sale

March 17, 10PM - 4AM

MUSIC

Operation Tomodachi

Inna Downtown Top Ranking Style Benefit For Japan

January 9 - January 30

FILM & THEATER

Liberty Hall Screenings

Film Screening at Ace Hotel

October 20, 8PM - 10PM

FILM & THEATER

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Tishman Auditorium, The New School

July 28, 6PM - 11PM

FILM & THEATER

Muppets Take Brooklyn

BAMcinématek

July 16 - July 23

ART

Died Young, Stayed Pretty

Rock Poster Show and Documentary

June 24 - June 28

ART

No Soul For Sale

X Initiative

June 20 - September 26

FAIRS

Recess: The Lawn Series

Governor's Island

June 9 - December 31

ART

Spencer Finch: The River That Flows Both Ways

The High Line

June 10, 3PM - 7PM

FILM & THEATER

Food Inc.

Bell House

March 26 - June 6

ART

Picasso: Mosqueteros

Gagosian Gallery

May 15 - September 20

FILM & THEATER

Rooftop Films

Summer Series

May 14 - June 14

ART

Ernesto Neto: anthropodino

Park Avenue Armory
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The designers of Alameda, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave of hOmE.

Photo: Daniel Bernauer

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Photo: Rose Callahan

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Eunice Lee in front of her Nolita shop.

Photo: Rose Callahan

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Photo: Staff

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Photo: Staff

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