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During October 2012, SUITE New York with Swarovski and Lange Production will present the third installment of The Pink Project. Following two wildly successful years, 2012’s The Pink Jalk Project to benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation promises even more excitement, creativity and monies raised. SUITE New York launched The Pink Project in hopes of harnessing the wealth of talent found in the design world into a philanthropic enterprise to raise awareness for BCRF and their mission to achieve both prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime.
For the first time, The Pink Project spotlights a chair designed by a woman. This year’s chair is the GJ Chair designed by Grete Jalk. Twenty leading interior designers, architects and design icons have been asked to customize the iconic GJ Chair in personal homage to BCRF and their worldwide initiatives.
Our studio was one of the lucky design firms asked to participate and we came up with the design you see above.
This iconic chair is so beautiful on it's own that we couldn't imagine trying to add to it. With that in mind, we decided to explore the idea of subtraction and what the chair would become by taking something away. In doing so, we soon discovered there was a certain beauty in making something more fragile while still maintaining it's integrity. As Sigmend Freud once said, "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength".
You can see some of the other chairs and learn more about the project in the New York Times T magazine and then start bidding this Monday at Charity Buzz. Good Luck!
It's the beginning of fall which means a plethora of new design books are headed our way. One we're eager to get our hands on is the new Roman and Williams book: Building & Interiors: Things We Made. For their tenth anniversary, the design studio presents projects that blend the spirit of our
collective history with a modernist edge. Roman and Williams’s style
honors craftsmanship, the use of natural materials, and the overlooked
in unexpected ways. Their understated, glamorous sensibility is imparted
in Manhattan’s Ace Hotel interiors and restaurant The Breslin, The Standard Hotel, with its iconic Boom Boom Room, and the Royalton lobby.
For such popular restaurants as The Dutch (one of our favorite restaurants!), the duo created environments
with textured backdrops that reference a rich past with a contemporary
sensibility. Their innovative work has captured the attention of firms
such as Facebook—they recently completed its campus food hall—and their
residences for celebrities such as Ben Stiller and Gwyneth Paltrow are
equally imaginative. This book surveys the firm’s prestige projects,
presented with Alesch’s architectural hand drawings and sketches and
detailed views. Also included is their loft and Montauk home, which
serve as design laboratories, and a collection of furnishings and
fixtures. Wound up!
One of our favorite fall destinations, Storm King, has a new exhibition entitled Light and Landscape. The show features work by fourteen artists who use
natural light as an essential artistic material, much as they would use
marble, paint, or wood. They take inspiration from the sun, moon, and
stars; from lightning and fire. Their works highlight not only the
visual experience of natural light, but also its vast impact on our
daily lives and ecosystem.
Storm King Art Center provides an inimitable setting for an exhibition
about light, and its 500-acre landscape has proven inspiring to many.
Ten works on display are site-specific, or made expressly for this
exhibition. The exhibition is interspersed among Storm King’s permanent
collection, both inside and out. The show runs through November 10th...to learn more click here!
R 20th Century has a new exhibition entitled AFTER, curated by Kelly Behun
and Alex P. White of kelly behun | STUDIO. kelly behun | STUDIO is an interior design firm that operates on a laboratory
model where experimentation is encouraged and collaborations with
contemporary artists produce pioneering designs for the residential
environment. AFTER marks the first public exhibition to present these
designs as well as Behun and White's innovative vision for contemporary
interior design. It also incorporates vintage and
contemporary works from R 20th Century selected by Behun and White.
Featured designers include Wendell Castle, Julia Krantz, Oscar Niemeyer
and Jeff Zimmerman, who will present a custom illuminated sculpture. The show runs through October 27th and is definitely worth checking out...(pretty trippy!) To learn more click here!
We recently received a copy of the new book showcasing the work of design firm Atelier AM and it does not disappoint. We've always been big fans of their work and admire their distinct point of view. A deft hand at creating interiors that mix materials, both rough-hewn
and luxurious, antique and modern, marks the work of Alexandra and
Michael Misczynski, the husband-and-wife team behind the Los
Angeles–based firm Atelier AM. Only ten years after establishing their
business, the couple has garnered a keen reputation for creating
environments that are sensory experiences—visually sublime interiors
enhanced with subtle, textural palettes. Seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century furniture commingle with modernist pieces and ancient
objects. Background colors and materials are muted and
refined. Interiors Atelier AM showcases a selection of residences—each
exhibiting the firm’s skill at mixing furniture and objects with
backgrounds such as antique flooring and Venetian plaster, with bold and
modern results. Their high-profile clients include Katie Holmes and Tom
Cruise and the Michael Eisners. With text written by our good friend Mayer Russ, this book is a nice addition to any design library and one we know we'll reference for years to come.
Now in its fourth season, ADFF has become the premier festival for
showcasing films about architecture and design. This year's festival at
Tribeca Cinemas will offer more than 25 films from around the world,
panel discussions with design leaders and filmmakers and architectural
driving tours of lower Manhattan in a new Audi A8! To learn more here! In the meantime, below is a clip from one of this year's films we're excited about seeing...enjoy!
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island from Design Onscreen on Vimeo.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will open Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959–1979, the first major museum exhibition of the iconic American designer’s work in over twenty years, and the only one to focus exclusively on the period when he defined his inimitable style of ground-breaking sculptural furniture.
The Aldrich will celebrate the opening with a preview benefit on Friday, October 19, 2012. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, October 20, 2012, when the Museum will host a panel discussion and book signing at 2 pm. The exhibition coincides with Castle’s eightieth birthday and is accompanied by an illustrated monograph co-published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Gregory R. Miller & Co. To learn more click here!
For the first time since Philip Johnson lived in his iconic Glass House, fresh flowers will be on display there, bringing new life to the
building's interiors. The Glass House has launched a program, announced
by Director Henry Urbach, to reintroduce fresh flower arrangements,
which have not been seen in the house since Philip Johnson's and his
partner, David Whitney's, passing in 2005. Local designer Dana Worlock
will reinterpret Whitney's original plant selection, adding and adapting
to suit the specific environmental conditions and seasonal changes of
the Glass House. To learn more click here!
