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7.24.06 | “Ridiculous” is the most suitable word to describe the sweltering heat that has plagued New York City for the past week. But on Tuesday, July 18, The New York Design Center provided some much-needed relief while hosting its second annual First Look event.
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7.24.06 | The International Interior Design Association celebrated the incumbency of Pam Light as its new president at a reception last week at the historic Sowden House in the Hollywood Hills. Designed by Lloyd Wright the house has been featured in films that include "The Aviator" and "America's Top Model."
6.9.06 Here’s NeoCon! W orried about cabs at each day end, the long waiting lines, and that’s when the sun is shining. Well, Allsteel is pitching in with a dozen brightly colored, human-powered pedicabs in and around the Merchandise Mart to take NeoCon attendees to and from the
7.17.06 | Have you wondered,
as I have, why so many of the NeoCon keynote speakers have very
little to do with the contract furniture industry that NeoCon annually
celebrates? As each event kicks off in this way we are left either
feeling elated, then depressed, or feeling that we are in freefall as we
leave the fantasyland of transcendent imagination to the grounded reality
of scurrying masses nudging to the front of the opening-day elevator
crowd. However one views it, this year’s opening keynote by Ron Arad
– sponsored by Allsteel – was an engaging discussion
encompassing much design inspiration and spontaneity, as well as
furniture production, and even quite avant garde architecture and
interiors.
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7.10.06 | In April at Milan’s International Furniture Fair, Promosedia presented The Future in the Present, an exhibition of chairs from the Section by Invitation Promosedia2005 International Design Competition from the previous year. Section by Invitation is a division of the competition in which established and notable designers hand pick young up-and-coming designers to display their most innovative designs. The 2005 competition produced a number of innovative designs by six young designers chosen by Konstantin Grcic, Jasper Morrison and Marco Romanelli. The exhibit was an opportunity for Promosedia to reminisce on the success of last year’s International Chair Exhibition while looking forward to the events, competitions and designs of Promosedia2006.
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7.3.06 | This year we saw a great deal more than lip service regarding sustainability.
For example most companies are:
6.26.06 | On June 22, the New York Design Center hosted the second installment of the Process 2 Collaboration series. The four-part series features exemplary projects which highlight the spirit of collaboration and the results that come from such partnerships. The first presentation was by Gensler, New York, which covered the New York Times building (officeinsight 4.24.06).
6.26.06 | Although the number of manufacturers exhibiting at AIA Conventions remains huge, the number of furniture exhibits has dropped in recent years to zero. Many of us recall years when the major office furniture producers were quite visible at these events. Certainly, architecture firms are specifying lots of office and institutional furniture, but the individuals responsible are more likely to attend NeoCon. KI and Steelcase had modest booths at this convention, both focused entirely on wall and floor systems considered closer to the interests of architects attending. (Reinforcing the division of labor this year was the near simultaneous scheduling of the two events: AIA, June 8-10, and NeoCon, June 12-14. AIAs dates bounce around the calendar as they move from city to city; next years is scheduled for May 3-5 in San Antonio.)
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6.19.06 | And the secret ingredient
for this buoyant and ebullient NeoCon was . . . many things: the people,
of course, always the best starting and ending place (unless, maybe, if
you are not a people). Even before the show, Merchandise Mart
Properties, the event manager, expected more than 45,000 attendees,
the highest number since 2000. Ron Arads opening keynote was
packed and I had to search for a space to stand, which I found in the
back of the room next to Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of Vitra who,
with Hanns-Peter Cohn, CEO, was in for the event. There was great
energy in the building, said Carnegie president Cliff Goldman,
real happiness about seeing innovation returning to the industry, and
perhaps most importantly, a feeling that end-users have increasing
respect for the value of design creativity that our industry brings to
them.
But any event that sustains the excitement and attention of its
participants for four days must be a collage of diverse stimulations.
NeoCon 2006 was not found wanting. From an estimated 40% increase in
attendance and an estimated 500% increase in attentiveness (our
estimate) to jammed keynotes and seminars, from colorful and exuberant
galas to a parade of jousting products, this NeoCon Worlds Trade Fair
was packed with delights.
6.19.06 | I do look forward to a time when everything I write is not prefaced with this is my first (blank). But that time has not yet come. The anticipation of my first NeoCon was like the first time sewing together a dress. All the pieces are there, you work and you plan, but you are not quite sure how it will all turn out. I had my comfortable shoes, my notebook and pen and an extra battery for my camera. But still in the weeks before the show I would wake up in cold sweats with dreams that I was in a free falling elevator with my face squished between a bicep and . . . . well, hopefully, just another bicep.
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