There are many reasons to look forward to Fall in NYC — cooler temps for one! What I’m most excited about though is the return of my favorite design event, Salon Art + Design: the immersive design experience that shows all the other art fairs how it’s done. As the leading collectible design and art fair (produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates), Salon Art + Design, taking place annually at NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, has just announced its 13th edition,. This year’s fair will run from November 7th to 11th, 2024, so get ready for some great fun and inspiration. Continue reading Eye On Design: Salon Art + Design Announces its 13th Edition with New Exhibitors and More!→
François-Xavier Lalanne’sGorille Consol, often referred to as the Gorilla Table, is one of his iconic sculptural works. Along with his wife Claude Lalanne (collectively know as Les Lalannes), the artist and designer was renowned for creating whimsical and surrealistic sculptures, often combining functional elements with artistic forms inspired by nature. Continue reading Eye On Design: François-Xavier Lalanne’s Gorilla Table→
Mona Hatoum’s Deep Throat (1996) offers an interior view of her body as an object to be consumed. The artist inventively edited her endoscopy and colonoscopy footage to appear as if we are traveling through her digestive tract, from teeth to anus and back again. “I wanted the work to be about the body probed, invaded, violated, deconstructed,” said Hatoum, who, like all of us, lives in a technologically advanced society, where the loss of personal privacy is widely tolerated. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Mona Hatoum, Deep Throat→
Choosing the proper conference table design for your office is important in a professional world that’s moving at a breakneck pace. Round conference tables, in particular, are favored because of their capability to foster an inclusive atmosphere in which everybody feels part of the discussion. The usual dominators of the boardroom are the long, rectangular tables, but a circular shape for a table makes it much easier for people to communicate with each other and maintain eye contact. Continue reading Features to Look for in Round Conference Tables for Seamless Connectivity→
These days, furniture whose designs are conceived on a computer or transferred from other media can be wholly or partly made by digitally controlled machines. More recently, technology allows for the three-dimensional (3D) printing of a complete object, layer by layer, using powder or liquid resin.
This Fractal Table II (2007– 2009) designed by Platform— a partnership of German furniture designers Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel, with Matthias Bar — is based on the form of the dragon tree (Dracaena). To develop the computer models for the table, the designers used mathematical algorithms to create a design which reproduced the fractal growth patterns found in tree’s branching structure. Continue reading Eye On Design: Fractal Table 2 By Platform→
