Post Design Week Press

We had an amazing time in New York last week. We're still processing, but wanted to share a few links from the nice press we received. Thanks to everyone for their support!

At the airport, we were excited to find our Bound hand mirrors mentioned in the New York Times' Three Design Shops Popping Up in New York. For a recap from the Noho Design District (where we showed work with the American Design Club and Sight Unseen), here is a great summary from Sight Unseen.

While we were setting up our ICFF booth, we found this nice post from Laura Cassidy's Wear What When blog for Seattle Metropolitan Magazine featuring our work along with fellow Seattle designers: Greypants, urbancase and Iacoli & McAllister.

After ICFF, we were happy to read that we were selected by Inhabit as part of the Best Green Furniture Design at ICFF 2011 (see above) as well as one of 15 Young Designers and Collectives to See at ICFF according to Apartment Therapy.

We also wanted to send thanks to Jess Chamberlain of Sunset for her ICFF 2011 (some Seattle-based faves), Ghislaine Viñas of Interior Design for including our Bound hand mirrors in a nice post from the Noho Design District, and Carl Collins of Core77 for including our Bound wall mirror in their Noho roundup.

Views from ICFF

Here are a few quick glimpses into booth 849 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair showing our new Spool wall system, small hemp wrapped Bound mirror, manilla threaded Hung mirror and Iacoli & McAllister's Large Frame Light Cluster. Our new website will be up next week. In the meantime, info on all the new products can be found in our online catalog.

New York Design Week

It's kind of unbelievable that it is almost time for New York Design Week again, but we've been busy and are super excited for this year. With a new website (launching May 13) and several designs debuting at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and Noho Design District, it will be one whirlwind of a week.

If you are in New York, come visit us at the following:

International Contemporary Furniture Fair

Saturday May 14 - Monday May 17

10:00 am - 5:00 pm (closes 4:00 pm May 17)

Jacob Javits Center

655 West 34th Street, Booth 849

American Design Club Presents: Use Me

Friday May 13 - Monday May 16

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The American Design Building at Great Jones Lumber

45 Great Jones Street

Sight Unseen Pop-Up Shop

Friday May 13 - Monday May 16

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The American Design Building at Great Jones Lumber

45 Great Jones Street

If you are in New York this weekend....

Don't miss the second annual Model Citizens NYC exhibition curated by Mika Braakman at Hosfelt Gallery!

Model Citizens NYC will include new work by 50 independent designers (including Pratt/RISD/Bainbridge friends Mimi Kirmaci, Niels Cosman, Hello, We Are_______., Brandon Perhacs, and Stanley Ruiz) and we will have a few items for sale in the exhibition store.

Our other favorites for Design Week are:

> ICFF booths by Seattle friends Iacoli & McAllister, Urbancase, Kerf, and Greypants.

> Breakable at the Heller Gallery with new glass work by Hello, We Are______., Free Time Industries, Henry Julier, Sergio Silva, and more.

> New work from Portugal and Brazil at INTER-CONNECTED (curated by Zoë Melo) featuring a talk moderated by Frederico Duarte.

> Emily Pilloton's Design Revolution Roadshow (the exhibition's final stop) in the Metropolis Magazine booth at ICFF.

> Work by AREAWARE, Brad Ascalon, DesignGlut, Emily Rothschild, Henry Julier, Kiel Mead, Stanley Ruiz, and more at CITE Goes America.

> The NOHO Design District curated by Sight Unseen.

Post Model Citizens...

Thanks to everyone who came out to support Model Citizens in New York last weekend! Our favorite part of the show was getting to know all of the designers exhibiting. It was such a great community. See links to all of the participating designers here. Big thanks to Erika Carmichael for the invitation.

Above and below are some pics from the show. The ceramics in the second to last shot are by Zena Verda Pesta. The cardboard partition wall and mirror cut-outs in the last shot are by Ben Blanc.

We were thrilled to sellout of the Ty Recyclable Shower Curtains that we brought (should have packed more) and happy to have convinced many a sitter of the comfort level of our Cafe America chair.

Read more about Model Citizens exhibition (including a mention of our Cafe America chair) in the Metropolis Magazine blog post here or on Core77 here or here.

UPDATED 5/28/09: See all our photos from Model Citizens here.

Grain in NYC for Model Citizens!

We are thrilled to be a part of the Model Citizens exhibition May 16-18th in New York! Model Citizens is a "newly formed organization committed to celebrating and connecting an international community of independent designers." The site of the show is Exit Art (475 Tenth Avenue), a few blocks from the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We are excited to be showing alongside old friends such as Nathan Thomas and Niels Cosman as well as new Northwest friends such as iacoli & mcallister. The show is open 11:00am to 6:00pm each day, with a cocktail reception 5:00-7:00pm on the 16th. Hope to see you in New York!

> grain

Calling all designers...

Our dear friend Erika Carmichael is looking for submissions for an underground independent design exhibition that she is co-curating called Model Citizens in New York this May 16, 17 and 18.

The exhibition space is around the corner from the Jacob Javits Center during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. The goal is to celebrate young up-and-coming designers who are not represented at ICFF.

The deadline is April 12th. For more info contact Erika at info@modelcitizensnyc.com.