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New York’s ICFF held special import this year for Italian lighting icon Flos – the company celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 18 at their showroom in SoHo. In honor of the occasion, Flos launched a retrospective iPad app created by Mobile Dream Studio, Flos’s CEO, journalist Stefano Casciani, and photographer Ramak Fazel. The results include a stunning history, a catalogue of design, and scanned copies of love letters sent by designers to the company over the decades. Flos also introduced the limited-edition Light Photon lamp, designed by Philippe Stark using OLED technology and a mirror-effect metalized diffuser and distinguished by a special Flos 50 logo sensor – a link between the company’s history and its future.

Duravit president Tim Schroeder unveiled Delos, the company’s latest collaboration with Austrian design group EOOS, during an exclusive ICFF launch party last week. Guests surveyed the new range of bathroom fixtures featuring minimalist design, clean and floating lines, and modern finishes including walnut or light oak veneer and a fresh high-gloss white.

Lighting, wall coverings and seating were some of the strongest categories at the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair happening this week at the Javits Center in New York.

During ICFF Everyone Wanted…

 

To check out Wanted Design, an international design event taking place from May 19 to 21 at the Terminal Stores in New York’s Meatpacking District. The event is co-founded and co-directed from Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat. For the second year in a row, both up and coming designers and long established icons came together for three days of installations, conversations, and meetings of the mind. Bernhardt Design unveiled an exhibition called “America Made Me,” a collaboration with Raleigh Denim that explained the company’s manufacturing process and simultaneously showcased Bernhardt’s latest display fixtures. And representing the French design market, companies such as Superette and Specimen offered fresh takes on lighting and furniture.

The Museum of Arts and Design’s annual Design Week gala in New York attracted more than 650 guests and raised about $22,000, with the highest bid of $5,095 going for a LTD Kara Darama LED Dress donated by Jen Kao.  Sponsored mainly by the Lighting Science Group and Continental Mining and Metallurgical Corporation, the L.E.D. Ball was held in honor of the key technology that illuminates everything from the museum’s second-floor jewelry gallery to the ninth-floor restaurant’s lighting installation. Spread over two floors, the event featured 45 lots in a silent auction encompassing everything from task lighting, sculpture, and clothing to finedining, air travel, and yoga classes. All photos by Ric Kallaher.

And to celebrate the company threw an anniversary party at its New York showroom, which was attended by a multitude of designers and other ICFF attendees.

More than 400 guests attended Interior Design's recent Hospitality Giants pool party at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. Here, a photo recap of those who attended the event hosted by editor in chief Cindy Allen and designer Roger Thomas.

Kohler’s booth at this week's ICFF show at the Javits Center in New York held an exclusive meet and greet with designer Jonathan Adler for the company’s We Love Color launch, which unveiled four special edition Jonathan Adler enamels.

A fast-growing health-care and education consultancy, the Advisory Board Company in Austin, Texas, was tripling in
size, to 47,000 square feet—courtesy of a move that supplied SmithGroupJJR a perfect opportunity for interior reinvention. The original location’s private offi ces, counterintuitive for a team-based organization, gave way to “neighborhoods” for each group. Photography by CHRISTOPHER BARRETT

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Interior design marketing consultant Susan Lobel pays tribute to late architect Yoshiko Sato of Morris Sato Studio and offers a slideshow of Sato’s most famous work. + read article 

Decades after developing Xorel, Carnegie keeps pushing the potential of this proprietary polyethylene, first used for fabrics.

Bernhardt Design’s president was a man on a mission.
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When digital marketing agency Wunderman – whose clients include heavyweights like Nokia, Ford, Microsoft, Kraft, the Coca-Cola Company, and Adidas – approached HOK to design their new office in Los Angeles, the brief was deceptively simple: avoid the corporate world’s cubicle maze in favor of creative, collaborative spaces. + read article 

Day two of the Hospitality Design show in Las Vegas saw a continued interest in color and a trend toward textured materials and bold graphics. Here, a few of the highlights.