Now in its fourth year, New York’s Collective Design fair has become a mainstay on the agendas of every major interior designer, architect, and collector in (and out of) town. Beloved for its vetted mix of vintage designs from galleries like Nicholas Kilner, Mark McDonald, and ADN Galeria, and contemporary works from hot young things like Misha Kahn, Apparatus Lighting, and Chris Wolston, it serves up blue-chip collectables with a side of kooky avant-garde. After trolling the halls at last night’s press preview, we identified nine things that you simply cannot miss.
Collective Design runs through May 8 at Skylight Clarkson Square, New York; collectivedesignfairom
Print All Over Me collaborated with Various Projects on a pile of cushy cloud-printed cubes, pyramids, and chairs that was deemed the fair’s unofficial nap spot.
At Sight Unseen’s booth, designer Chris Wolston debuted a series of spacey sand-cast aluminum furnishings.
Wendell Castle’s Custom Executive Desk —crafted from carved and laminated oak in 1976—provoked a serious amount of selfies at the booth of New York gallery, Converso.
If you’re not exactly clear on what Roto-Jam means (a process which uses particle jamming to produce thin-shelled casts and reusable molds) Brooklyn design space A/D/O and studio CW&T set up a live demonstration at their booth.
The work of Jay Sae Jung Oh, on display at Johnson Trading Gallery, will stop you in your tracks. The Korean designer wraps found objects like stools, bicycle tires, and more with leather cord to form wild, undulating furniture forms.
Japanese design collective Nendo devised metal sculptures that, when placed against a white wall, create geometric imagery with their shadows.
The Paris-based Negropontes Galerie is showcasing a striking console by Hervé Langlais that features a top made from painted sheets of glass.
Fernando Mastrangelo’s craggy furnishings made of sand and resin look like they’ve been carted in from Mars.
Thaddeus Wolfe’s nuanced glass creations continue to captivate in the candy-colored diminutive forms shown by R & Company.
