all the must-see events and exhibitions during NYCxDESIGN 2023

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• Grow-at-home furniture
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• acre nature preserve opens in the Rockaways at NYC’s first net-zero community
• Studio Amebe x NYCxDesign
• Dezeen Magazine
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• LIGHT THAT MOVES DESIGN
• Art Advisor Lisa Schiff, Accused of Fraud by Two Former Clients, Has Vacated Her London and New York Spaces

The NYC-based nonprofit Street Lab, which creates and shares programs for public space, will offer a showcase of its pop-up programs and designs for public space, live and in-action in partnership with local businesses at the free LIC Springs! The showcase will include Street Lab’s One Big Table, designed specifically for use on open streets, as well as Street Lab’s portable reading room, interactive Lego-building stations, and more. The Radiator Show is an exhibition of innovative and craft-focused designers and artists whose work encompasses furniture, lighting, and objects.

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A robust talks program will feature Snøhetta, Patricia Urquiola, and Mavis Wiggins, and cover topics as varied as the metaverse and WGSN’s latest trend reports. Unlike past years when blue-chip art events like Frieze and TEFAF were scheduled a few weeks ahead of more design-oriented programming, this year sees all the city’s programming converging around a compact 10-day window. Anchoring the beast that is New York Design Week is ICFF and WantedDesign Manhattan (May 21–23), curated this year in equal measure by culture-makers Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat, who have set out to give the established furniture fair a fresh look and feel. Meanwhile, the larger NYCxDesign initiative (running May 18–25) will encompass showcases, installations, and even block parties taking place everywhere from the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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So much of New York Design Week’s offering takes place in the city’s diverse crop of storefronts. Brands historically have selected spaces downtown in SoHo and Tribeca, but today you’ll find an equal presence in Nomad and even the Upper East Side. 2023 hasn’t disappointed with a new crop of hyped New York eateries and lounges to try out.

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acre nature preserve opens in the Rockaways at NYC’s first net-zero community

Displayed alongside ceramic lights, stools and vessels that exude a comparatively raw and organic ethos, this showcase presents the full breadth of Thacker’s practice. As North America’s leading platform for showcasing contemporary design, ICFF brings a wide array of furniture, lighting, accessories and more, and sees some of our favourite brands, such as Bernhardt Design and Armadillo rugs returning to show this year. To counter its density, the fair brings back ‘Oasis’, a restorative lounge space designed by Float Studio, which debuted last year. Decked out with lounge seating, curtained pods equipped with device-charging capabilities and guided-meditation headphones, this nature-inspired resting point will help revive visitors before they continue on.

Los Angeles–based platform Sized mounted its second exhibit in Donna Karan’s striking West Village residential complex. Titled “Industrialism,” the display—curated by Alexander May and on view until May 28—brought together a wide array of collectible furnishings, artworks, and even a rare 1980s Lamborghini jeep (furnished by Morton St. Partners) to support its theme. On May 16, Amy Astley, AD’s global editorial director and U.S. editor in chief, hosted a special evening at Molteni&C’s Madison Avenue flagship alongside Vincent Van Duysen, the company’s creative director. Not a bad way to celebrate the launch of the Living Box collection—and the brand’s attractive, newly renovated showroom. Chelsea gallery Tuleste Factory will showcase an exhibition with "special curation" by spatial designer Ceren Arslan and creative agency Mother New York.

Will Frieze New York expand again, now that Frieze has bought New York’s Armory Show, which typically features about 220 exhibitors? Given the season and the timing, the size of it is appropriate, said Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of Americas. “It’s the right formula.” As for what happens to the Armory, Messineo said it was too early to say and that the fair had to go through its next iteration in September before any rethinking could take place.

Ranging from 14 suspended light installations to hand-blown glass oil lamps and alter-like arrangements of curiosities, the highly personal presentation delves even further into Adelman’s artistic practice. Named after a shortened version of ‘colonna’, the Italian word for column, Swell Studio’s second collection is largely inspired by a recent trip to Italy that founder/designer Mike White took. A repeating motif of intersecting cylindrical shapes and geometries can be spotted from the pulls to the legs of the credenza.

The two companies have collaborated on Izra, a collection of hand-knotted rugs a mother and daughter-run all-female collective. Loosely translated as ‘weave of the day’, Izra includes seven unique styles ranging in color, cost, and size, and marks the first-ever collaboration between Salam Hello and an external partner beyond their artisans. Designer Constantin Boym has created a project called Ecophilia in collaboration with Hudson Valley-based store and gallery Available Items. Ecophilia draws inspiration from Enzo Mari‘s ‘Autoprogettazione’ manual and the idea that eco-humanism should be expressed through design. It is a series of contemporary habitats for plants and animals that can be constructed using accessible, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly materials and tools. The Milan-based Dimorestudio will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a museum-quality exhibition featuring a capsule collection of one-of-a-kind furniture pieces by its founders, Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci.

In Milan, a nostalgic wind blew through the showrooms, where Willy Rizzo and Josef Hoffmann would have felt very comfortable with a drink (probably champagne in a Lobmeyr glass). All around town, 1970s gloss paired with sophisticated Art Deco craftsmanship, taking shape in a variety of new products. This meeting of eras manifested in the form of rich colors like bordeaux and petrol, as well as in materials like lacquer and steel (sometimes oxidized, other times satin-finished or chrome-plated). This year, Saint Laurent made its first foray into Milan Design Week with a stylish presentation of Gio Ponti plates, originally created by the legendary Italian designer as part of a residential commission in Venezuela. Forgoing immersive product presentations or the more common in-store activations of Salone del Mobile, Moncler took over the walls (and station gates) of Milano Centrale, the city’s architecturally significant central railway station. Curator Jefferson Hack oversaw each detail, from the visionary talent featured to the use of digital billboards and even the inclusion of handprinted lithographic prints.

Interni Venosta, a new furniture line by the Dimorestudio founders, exhibited last week in Milan. It also cropped up Galotti and Radice’s latest collection, as well as in the showings by younger labels, like German Italian newcomer Bottone, who debuted chunky red shelving. For Milan Design Week this year, Gucci’s creative director Sabato De Sarno reimagined a suite of Italian designs in the house’s Rosso Ancora red. On the afternoon I visited, I listened to a talk from the rising architect and artist Jayden Ali about his agenda-setting London-based practice, followed by a conversation about the idea of the queer home between academic and author Jack Halberstam and architect Andrés Jaque. Though the fair is a third of its original size, artworks priced in six and seven figures are all but sure to change hands. Last year at Frieze New York, Hauser & Wirth sold an acrylic painting by Jack Whitten for $2.5 million, White Cube parted with a Doris Salcedo table for $1.25 million, and Thaddaeus Ropac received $900,000 for a work by Robert Longo.

While group shows are an opportunity to share the love, these solo efforts – from showrooms unveiling new collections to galleries dedicating the stage to the work of one designer – prove that there’s no denying the power of one. News from Dezeen Events Guide, a listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world. Informed by the Turkish Tulu rug, Delavan has designed a number of long-haired rugs (Beni's first) in collaboration with a Moroccan organisation that works to save the Siroua, an endangered Moroccan sheep species. Curated by Jean Lee of Ladies & Gentlemen Studios, Public Access asked more than 30 designers to respond to themes around DIY aesthetics, the gift economy and decentralized design approaches. Visitors will be able to see realised installations as well as design processes and documentation of the work. The installation will feature 15 "tree-like" structures showcasing the different words that relate in some way to the brand's history.