In Conversation: Tom Dixon from PORT on Vimeo.

Stickbulb was recently featured in an article by The Editor At Large citing them as winners of this year's Best in Show at NYC x Design. Below is an excerpt from the publication:

"A light installation composed of redwood beams—carbon dating says they’re three centuries old—salvaged from a downtown Manhattan water tower has garnered much attention and taken home NYCxDESIGN’s Best In Show honor for the year. 'Ambassador,' a 16-foot-wide by 8-foot-tall installation by lighting brand Stickbulb in collaboration with RUX, radiated an arc of light over attendees at the Collective Design Fair, held at Skylight Clarkson Sq.

Nearly 150 beams were salvaged for the installation, which was designed to reflect the towering redwoods characterized in John Steinbeck’s book Travels With Charley. (In the classic, the author writes, 'The vainest, most slap-happy and irreverent of men, in the presence of redwoods, goes under a spell of wonder and respect.')

The NYXxDESIGN Awards, the second-annual competition from Interior Design magazine and ICFF, is designed to highlight top products and projects across New York’s month-long design fest. The Best in Show categories were originally intended to source the best of each anchor show (WantedDesign, Collective, ICFF) but this year folded the three categories into one, with Stickbulb honored as top dog across the three shows.

A panel including David Alhadeff of The Future Perfect, Emmanuel Plat of the Museum of Modern Art, Clodagh, Clive Wilkinson, Mark Zeff and other global and New York–centric design and architecture notables was tasked with choosing winners from this year’s selection of some 700-plus entrants, spanning two categories: product (wallcovering, lighting, furniture and more) and project (such as boutique hotel, health and wellness, and urban landscape).

Winning firm Stickbulb was founded five years ago by Yale School of Architecture graduates Russell Greenberg and Christopher Beardsley and has been rooted in the pair’s passion for architecture, modular systems and sustainable manufacturing. Stickbulb has worked with brands including Google, Facebook and Whole Foods, in addition to creating private commissions for hotels, offices and residences.

The brand’s LED fixtures are designed by RUX and made in New York, from reclaimed materials found locally via demolished buildings and sustainable forests. For the 'Ambassador' installation, Stickbulb sourced locally: As co-founders Greenberg and Beardsley tell EAL, 'The construction and dismantling of water towers in New York is scheduled and methodical and there is a market for the reclaimed wood, for sure. Following a lot of research and development, we’ve developed strong local relationships that allow us to get access to select material that is optimal for the fabrication of our products. A big part of our business and philosophy is sourcing beautiful reclaimed wood that has a meaningful and poetic history.' "

"The Most Epic New Furniture Collection We Spotted at ICFF

If you didn’t know that New York designer Anna Karlin had a background in set design, you might have guessed from this latest batch of photographs, showcasing the collection she just launched at ICFF in an appropriately brooding setting. Full of luxurious, sculptural pieces of lighting and furniture, the latest collection showcases Karlin’s interest in constantly tinkering with different mediums, as the pieces move from blown glass and carved marble works to larger endeavors like cast bronze, wooden and metal sculptures that hang suspended off a wall-mounted peg rack. In one of our favorite pieces, a sphere of Portuguese pink marble balances on a cube of brass-plated steel, smushed into a dimple of hand-blown glass; in another, a perfectly curving brass-plated steel chaise is lined with soft, cushioned bolsters — a form that in another life might be a pool chair, but here is the epitome of chic."

Read the full article here: http://www.sightunseen.com/2017/06/anna-karlin/

In case you missed it at Salone, here's Lee Broom's Time Machine, an exhibition celebrating his ten year anniversary.

Below are some highlights of Twentieth represented designers chosen from this year’s Salone del Mobile. As you can see, the press was quite taken by the work...we hope you are too. -- Stefan

Lee Broom

 Time Machine

"Within an abandoned vaulted storage room next to the historic Milano Centrale station, a white carousel spun—the only object in a raw, unfinished space. On that carousel, visitors found reimaginings of furniture, objects and lighting drawn from ten years worth of English designer Lee Broom's collections.
Together, the collection captures the magnificence of Broom's work, as both a catalog of well-executed ideas and as a conceptual exhibition unto itself."
- Cool Hunting

Lambert et Fils

Laurent 11/Mile

"Mile is a technical lamp characterized by an asymmetrical luminaire. Created in direct collaboration between the company's founder and the Canadian designer Guillaume Sasseville, Mile is a highly-featured design lamp, in which the use of linear LEDs and embedded cables in the structure accentuates the 'absence of gravity' almost creating the illusion of levitation."
- Elle Decor Italia

Gabriel Scott

Briolette/Myriad

Established & Sons

Established & Sons collection is revitalized with Sebastian Wrong at the helm.

"The utilitarian feel of the furniture that we have made is somewhat at odds with the cartoon graphic surface that covers it, and I feel this marriage illustrates perfectly the success of the collaborative process."
- Richard Woods for Archi Expo

Bocci

87 Series

"What happens when soda water combines with an extremely hot glass matrix? Meet Bocci's 87 LED light, which loops and folds back onto itself, for unexpected arrangement with no boundaries."
- Interior Design

Fernando Mastrangelo

ESCAPE Series Drum/Coffee Table

"Best of the Milan Design Furniture Fair 2017 list." - Sight Unseen

Tom Dixon

Cluster/Top Pendant Light

"Futuristic and faceted, Cut is an exercise in optics.  Its space-age mirror finish when off transforms to reveal a translucent kaleidoscopic gem when switched on. Hypnotising reflections of the luminous orb within repeat infinitely within the diamond cut, vacuum metallised interior."
- De De Ce Blog

Christopher Boots

Sugar Bomb Wall Sconces/Pythagoras Wall Sconce

Moooi

A Life Extraordinary Exhibition /Luna Piena

"Also included in the series is Wanders' Luna Piena, which features polycarbonate discs engraved with a constellation of crystal flakes."
- dezeen

Roll & Hill

Kazimir Pendant

"Striated, ribbed glasswork casting complex compositions of shadow, light and color played a big role at Euroluce, the biannual lighting-focused exhibition presented under the Salone umbrella. New York City-based showroom Roll & Hill exhibited a new rectangular Kazimir pendant, a layered, dichroic piece designed by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio and named after the Constructivist artist Kazimir Malevich."
- Artsy

Congratulations to Fernando Mastrangelo on this write-up in The Wall Street Journal featuring his new work.

Read the full article here

Bari Ziperstein

Los Angeles
In both her design and fine art practices, Ziperstein is constantly reinventing what a piece of ceramic art can, and ought, to be.

What is American design to you, and what excites you about it?
To me, American design is about a focused moxie to break rules in terms of scale, material choices, and stretching new outlets to sell or display one’s work. Having the ability to move between the fine art and design worlds (or the space between design, art, craft), where materials that are traditionally functional have a different use, value, and output. With a conceptual education at Cal Arts, rather than a traditional ceramics technical background – my investment in ceramics is less weighted in showing off technical tricks. Rather it’s about creating a new ceramic silhouette with unexpected processes that excites me.

What are your plans and highlights for the upcoming year?
I’m working on my next collection of large-scale pottery, with a continued investigation into terracotta, rope, and scale, and I’m participating in Rachel Comey’s ceramic event in both Los Angeles and New York City, opening December 5 through the new year. A few projects are still in the planning stages including several hotel and restaurant commissions.

This upcoming year I have a solo museum show at UCSB Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design. It will be my first solo show in more than four years, since distinguishing between my fine art practice and my editioned design works. “Fair Trade” consists of new work related to communist propaganda I researched while at the Wende Museum, a repository of Cold War artifacts. Using posters and ephemera as my starting point, I’m creating a dynamic installation that brings together a series of ceramic sculptures — vessels and decorative panels — that borrow from, and manipulate government-sanctioned images of women. These works form part of a faux trade show booth, which is based on specifications for Soviet Russian public information displays and industrial fairs. Complementing the installation are Soviet propaganda posters on special loan from the Wende that inspired portions of the project.

What inspires or informs your work in general?
The transformation of clay and testing its technical limits informs so much of my practice, from testing how to make a flat 28-inch ceramic slab to making a three-foot leather embossed image with equal pressure and consistency. With both practices, the experimentation of combining soft woven ropes with hard ceramic materials has been an ongoing point of inspiration — a collaging of sorts. I have an ongoing interest in Brutalist architecture, Soviet propaganda posters, and this primitive futurist style of terra cotta raw pottery. Artists like Imi Knoebel, Patti Smith, Marimekko, Robert Irwin, Moira Dryer, Marisol Escobar, Otto Lindig, Eva Hesse, and Superstudio are always sources of historic moxie.

<p>Below is the complete Sight Unseen American Design Hot-List for 2016: <br />Ana Kra&scaron;<br />ASH NYC<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bari Ziperstein<span><br />Bianco Light &amp; Space<br />Brendan Timmins<br />Charlap Hyman &amp; Herrero<br />Christopher Stuart<br />Earnest Studio<br />Fernando Mastrangelo<br />Grain<br />Jason Miller<br />Kelly Behun<br />Ouli<br />Rafael de Cardenas / Architecture at Large<br />Samuel Amoia<br />Slash Objects<br />Studio Proba<br />Uhuru<br />Wintercheck Factory<br />Yield</span></span></p>

New York based designer Lindsey Adelman talks about her work flow and how experimentation lead to exciting discoveries in this short video from Surface Magazine.

Works in Progress: Lindsey Adelman from Surface Magazine on Vimeo.

Adelman describes her process from conceptualizing unique designs to fabrication, saying, "I'm not really the type of designer who will draw something, draw it perfectly, put it in cad, and then have it made. I'm much more about wanting to see if there are any interesting surprises during the process of trying something." And she continues, "[Introducing a new concept] usually for me, that happens with experimenting."

Find Lindsey Adelman's designs on Twentieth here.

The LAURENT Collection

Lambert et Fils will be launching their Laurent Collection this week at Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium. This contemporary series of chandeliers and pendants is described as combining "the classic Bauhaus Milk Globe with a series of sculptural forms that carve through space, moving between line, surface and volume."  

"Our research [for the Laurent Collection] focused on the surface and the form. Here, the globe acts as the link between the two,” says Samuel Lambert, the studio’s founder and lead designer.
The Biennale Interieur is the first exhibition in Europe for the design studio, which was founded in 2010.

Find the Laurent Collection on Lambert et Fils' designer page.