Sheila Kim
For the eighth year, Marvin Windows and Doors sponsored its competition that celebrates outstanding project designs incorporating the manufacturer’s products — otherwise known as the Marvin Architects Challenge. Results of the 2016 edition once again delivered a feast for the eyes as they were announced at the AIA expo in Philadelphia. And the winners are…
For all the architects and designers buried deep in CEUs and network sessions at AIA 2016 last week, we present product highlights you might’ve missed on the expo floor of the Philadelphia Convention Center. This year, we encountered some interesting developments on both the commercial and residential ends and witnessed more companies delving into technology.…
Virtual and Augmented Reality might be the talk of our industry right now as more architects and int erior designers use these to give their clients an immersive preview of projects. But now there’s a new way to preview as well as notate 3D models, which can revolutionize how project teams work — and it doesn’t…
We continue our coverage of the best products of ICFF 2016 with a focus on furniture, finishes and m ore. (In case you missed it, click here to see our report on the best lighting products we spotted at the show.) Plexwood FURNITURE Mellow is a well-earned name for one sofa introduced by Bernhardt Design. The…
Considered the cornerstone event of NYCxDESIGN, ICFF came and went, drawing more than 35,000 design professionals, an increase in attendance by 6 percent compared to 2015. The show itself was also massive, taking up a 30-percent-larger footprint at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan — and convincing us that we need two posts to…
Some years ago, the ever-whimsical luminaire designer Ingo Maurer developed a lighting product of a different sort. Instead of a chandelier made to resemble birds in a tree or floating circuit-board strips, the simply named LED Wallpaper was a non-woven covering with integrated LEDs creating a field of isometric shapes. Ingo Maurer Since then, niche…
Long before Americans succumbed to the lure of a low-cost flat-pack furniture brand called IKEA, the y discovered the charms of Scandinavian design through a rather ingenious chair: Made within the constraints of wartime material shortages, the chair utilized cedar scraps and webbing of army-rejected nylon straps from parachute production. This design, created by Jens Risom…
The 27th edition of Lightfair International — the world’s largest annual lighting trade show — took over the San Diego Convention Center last week, once again showcasing cutting edge fixtures and systems, emerging technologies and decorative products for both commercial and consumer markets. If you missed the expo, here are seven products from the show…
“In his own designing, Lee is the enemy of decoration, of effects, of anything that detracts or dist racts from the drama,” Mel Gussow wrote of Ming Cho Lee in American Theatre magazine. “The idea that theatergoers might actually applaud a set offends his scenic sensibility.” Yet, one could hardly ignore the striking stage designs Lee…