The party-crasher's guide to Design Week
In New York this weekend? You could do a lot worse than hitting the parties around Design Week: Once you know where to go, it's (relatively) easy to get past the clipboard-wielding door dictators. With the International Contemporary Furniture Fair opening tomorrow in Manhattan, there's no shortage of related events. We've broken down the best in our night-by-night itinerary:
FridayThe Terence Conran Shop turns red with an installation of Spanish works. Designs by Jaime Hayon, Martí Guixé, and others mix with stuffed piquillo pepper hors d'oeuvres (407 E. 59th St., 6-9 p.m.). Another option? Smallpond, Matter, and I.D. magazine's Housewarming, with installations by Established & Sons, Tom Dixon, and Thorsten van Elten (101 W. 24th St., 6:30-9 p.m.).
SaturdaySpend the night in Soho: The Moss-Moroso-Maharam complex (150-152 Greene St.) features Studio Job's Robber Baron (pictured, the side table from a suite of five objects) alongside Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny's vases made by bees. Stop by the live auction at Cappellini (151 Wooster St., 7-10 p.m.), and check the scenes at Design Within Reach (110 Greene St., 7-10 p.m.), Kiosk (95 Spring St., 7-10 p.m.), and Bond (133 Greene St., 6-9:30 p.m.). Best bet? Core77's black light Ping-Pong party, which is exactly what it sounds like. (For secret location, e-mail rsvp77@core77.com.)
Booze for free in the Meatpacking District and take in the openings throughout: Vitra shows work curated by design greats Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison (29 Ninth Ave., 6-9 p.m.); HARDCORE exhibits new Finnish designs (413-415 W. 14th St., 5-8 p.m ); M2L features Dutch icons (410 W. 14th St., 5-9 p.m.); Carlo Miele has Jeff Miller's latest designs (408 W. 14th St., 5-7 p.m.); and Shelly Steffee (34 Gansevoort, 5-9 p.m) and Jussara Lee (11 Little W. 12th St., 6-9 p.m.) are serving cocktails. Then head up to the Chelsea Art Museum for Orange22's silent auction—and more free booze—with works by everyone from Yves Behar and Karim Rashid to Milton Glaser and Massimo and Lella Vignelli (556 W. 22nd St., 8-11 p.m.).
MondayRamp down with a beer in Williamsburg at The Future Perfect, where you'll find works by Sarah Cihat, Esque, Committee and others, and its sister store, A&G Merch, highlighting the Japanese collective MollaSpace (111-115 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, 6-10 p.m.).
Couldn't make it to town? Check back next Wednesday for our roundup of the week's best designs.
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