NYC 2013: Ralph Pucci Celebrates ICFF – party

 

NYC 2013: Ralph Pucci Celebrates ICFF – party.  Celebrating designs of Chris Lehrecke and Gabriella Kiss, the lighting by Lianne Gold and the Diego Uchitel landscape photography, as well as, Deborah Turbeville and Stephan Lupino's The Dance Art Installation, the Ralph Pucci party was great fun, and the perfect event to end my stay in NYC.

Above. In the penthouse the performance by Art of Motion Dance Theatre, was accompanied by Bansuri flutist Steve Gorn, his backdrop, the Empire State Building.

 

Creative director Steve Kornajcik talks to host Ralph Pucci

 

Ralph Pucci: After the Storm/Furniture and Art Objects by Chris Lehrecke and Gabriella Kiss.  Acid ebonized Oak chest of drawers with bronze mushroom pulls.

 

Gabriella Kiss and Chris Lehrecke 

Ralph Pucci: After the Storm/Furniture and Art Objects by Chris Lehrecke and Gabriella Kiss.  Trestle Elm Branch Console with Bugs.

 

Designer Gabriella Valenzuela, artist Javier Avila and designer Kamal Sandu

 

Painter Katharine Dufault and her daughter Emma

 

Art of Motion Dance Theatre, choreographed by Lynn Needle.

 

Artist Stephan Lupino

 

Ralph Pucci – party. Photographer Adam Hutchins, who assists renowned photographer Deborah Turbeville in New York and also manages her archives. Erin Robertson from Colombia University looks on.

Ralph Pucci. A detail of a Deborah Turbeville photograph from The Dance/Art Installation.

 

Photographer Jessica Tan Gudnason and Galerie Gris’s Steve Isoz.

From Jamaica, New Age Spa’s Jackie Lewis and Anglo-Raj Antiques’s Sandra Long.

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NYC 2013 – Jacob K. Javits Convention Center – ICFF – “public Spaces”

NYC 2013 – Jacob K. Javits Convention Center – ICFF – “public Spaces”.  For a change, after the Salone del Mobile in Milan, at the ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, I picked a few pieces of design suitable for “public spaces”.

Above:  Like Atlas the primordial Titan who held up the celestial sphere, Tom Dixon holds a model, of his light, Punch XL, which was being manufactured at the fair. 

photograph courtesy Tom Dixon

 ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Tom Dixon Bespoke.  Tom Dixon Bespoke provides architects, interior designers and commercial customers with the ability to customize selected products from the Tom Dixon range to suit their project. Above; Punch XL.

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Trumpf Inc. The Trumpf machine is punching out, with an industrial laser technique, the Tom Dixon Punch lights on site and they are being assembled by Kammetal.

ICFF: “Public Spaces” –Kammetal.  Sam and Alastair Kusack of Kammetal specialize in doing ornamental metal work for architects and designers.

 Photograph courtesy Kammetal

ICFF: “Public Spaces” –Kammetal. Kammetal was selected by DCM Erectors to provide an engineered solution for the stainless steel and glass encapsulation of the One World Trade Center beacon.

 

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Emeco.  Emeco’s Gregg and Madson Buchbinder.

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Emeco.  The Parrish Side Chair was designed by Konstantin Grcic, 2013, for the Parrish Art Museum in New York.  The modest museum building holds an internal complexity just like the Parrish Collection, subtle design combined with a heartfelt technical core.

 

Seen at ICFF: NYT’s design editor Pilar Viladas and design consultant Jeffrey Osborne.

Seen at ICFF: Interni magazine’s editor in chief Gilda Bojardi.

 

Seen at ICFF:  Roundtable’s George Kordaris.

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Douglas Thayer Woodworking and Design.  Incorporating reclaimed and local woods with natural concrete and metal, Douglas Thayer Woodworking and Design has a long-standing commitment to socially responsible production and conscientious design.

photograph courtesy Douglas Thayer

 

 ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Douglas Thayer Woodworking and Design. The Anchorage Museum of History and art commissioned Douglas Thayer to design and build benches; they are made from reclaimed wood, cast concrete, and stainless steel.

 

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Douglas Thayer Woodworking and Design. Douglas Thayer with his stools inspired by mid-century industrial design, the blackened steel base is laser cut and the wood seats  are either in Heart Pine or Cherry.

photograph courtesy Anne Kyyro Quinn

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Anne Kyyro Quinn. Anne Kyyro Quinn designs acoustic wall coverings. Resembling artworks more than conventional fabrics, her sculptural approach has pioneered a new genre of interior textiles based on three-dimensional structure rather than smooth surface ornamentation. The designs are inspired by organic shapes and expressed with Scandinavian simplicity.  The bespoke textile services for residential or contract projects, works with architects, contractors and interior designers to create tailor-made pieces for a wide range of interior settings. 

ICFF: “Public Spaces” – Gaia and Gino. Gaia and Gino’s design entrepreneur Gaye Cervikal is photographed with the Fusion Rechargeable Led Table Lamps designed by Noe Duchaufour Lawrance in blown glass with copper, stainless steel and brass.  The lamps are suitable for public spaces like restaurants and museums.

  

ICFF 2013 – people were talking about – Ikea.   The stand that everybody was talking about was the Ikea stand.  Ikea presented The Stockholm Collection – Smart Craftsmanship, it is beautifully designed has affordable prices and the stand itself was very welcoming.

 

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NYC: Minimal USA’s Outdoor Kitchen Collection party

photograph by manfredi bellati

NYC: Minimal USA’s Outdoor Kitchen Collection party. On the rooftop of Minimal USA’s showroom in Chelsea, a party was held, in partnership with Gaggenau, to present the company’s first Outdoor Kitchen Collection. Before the party, at dusk, the rain stopped and the dramatic skyline, including New York’s iconic Empire State Building, the two steel water tanks on the roof, Minimal’s first outdoor kitchen and the outdoor furniture by Serralunga were cleansed and ready for the event. 

Minimal USA’s president and CEO Bartolomeo Bellati was photographed with their  M3 outdoors kitchen made entirely in aluminum and stainless steel.

Lutz and Schmitt’s Rene Schmitt and architect Gary Paul

 Lawyer and New York architectural historian Andrew Alpern 

 Architect Harold Tittmann

 

Gaggenau’s Vanessa Trost and Tony Leventhal

The view on the other side of the rooftop. Note: the water tank incorporated in the Chelsea Arts Tower building.

L’Agent Provocateur’s Clinette Basden-Tucker and Assouline’s Romina Djelosevic

Minimal USA's Italian Architect based in Canada Sebastiano Sammartini

photo credit Phoebe Streblow and Matthew C. Lange

  
After the rain, Minimal USA’s outdoor kitchen M3 made entirely in aluminum and stainless steel was ready for the party.

 

  Cheekd.com’s Lori Cheek and actor Sebastian Blackwell

 

Serralunga’s Holly All chair designed by Philippe Starck was graced by color expert and forecaster Patricia Hall, follow her on Color Clicks.

Model Katrin Thorman and couturier Haans Nicholas Mott, his Bespoke Private Label of “disheveled” clothing is made to order exclusively.

  Multi-disciplinary artist David Barish and art director Laura Landes

From Milan agronomist Giorgio Colombo who with Francesca Ballini Richards co-produces the (A Casa) project event in Milan during the Salone del Mobile.

Film and events producer Brett Herman and artist Kendalle Fiasco

photo credit Phoebe Streblow and Matthew C. Lange 

The Minimal USA party in full swing.

 

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