American Design in Paris

For Paris Design Week and in conjunction with the Rising Talent Awards at MAISON&OBJET
the American Design in Paris exhibition is co-presented by MAISON&OBJET, Triode and WantedDesign.

WantedDesign will present a selection of the French and American designers projects shown at WantedDesign Brooklyn in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The duos all worked on new and uniques pieces that have never been exhibited in France. The highlight will be on all the glass projects previously presented in NYC part of Oui Design and The Transatlantic Creative Exchange.
Featured projects and designers:
Francois Azambourg (Paris) + CIAV Meisenthal (France) + Brooklyn Glass (New York)
Elise Graham  (Los Angeles) + CIAV Meisenthal (France)
Steven Haulenbeek (Chicago) + CIAV Meisenthal (France)
Jonah Takagi (Washington) + CIRVA Marseille (France)
Pauline Deltour (Paris) + Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
Philippe Nigro (Paris) + Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)

Francois Azambourg (Paris) + CIAV Meisenthal (France) + Brooklyn Glass (New York)

The exhibition will include a lighting installation from American designers presented by Triode: Allied Maker, David Weeks, Gabriel Scott, Jason Miller, Roll & Hill, John Hogan, John Pomp, Lindsey Adelman, Ocrùm. triodedesign.com

Branching Bubble, Lindsey Adelman

The exhibit will also feature pieces from the six designers selected for the Rising Talent Awards.
Introduced in 1995, the Rising Talent Awards celebrate emerging designers from different parts of the world, who are selected by a local jury of renowned industry leaders.
MAISON&OBJET, the international trade fair for design, decoration and lifestyle, held every September and January in Paris, will shine a spotlight on the United States this year by honoring up-and-coming American designers with its Rising Talent Awards.
WantedDesign was part of the Jury who selected the US Talents: Alex Brokamp, Bailey Fontaine, Green River Project, Harold, Kin & Company, and Rosie Li.

Kin & Company

American Design in Paris exhibit. Galerie Joseph, Espace Froissart, 7 rue Froissart 75003 Paris
From September 4-11, 11am-7pm 
Cocktails,  Saturday September 7, 7-9pm (by invitation)

The exhibit is presented in collaboration with Triode, Paris Design Week and MAISON&OBJET, and supported by Industry City and Oui design.

Launched in 2016, Oui Design is a program developed by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and its partner foundation FACE, in order to foster creative exchange in design between France and the U.S.

Rising Talent Awards: USA

MAISON&OBJET, the international trade fair for design, decoration and lifestyle, held every September and January in Paris, will shine a spotlight on the United States by honoring up-and-coming American designers with its Rising Talent Awards. 

An exhibition of products by this group will be a highlight of the next edition of the fair, which is scheduled for Sept. 6-10, 2019. 

Introduced in 1995, the Rising Talent Awards celebrate emerging designers from different parts of the world, who are selected by a local jury of renowned industry leaders. The most recent program, in January, honored six Chinese designers representing a new generation of creative excellence. The work of the honorees was prominently displayed at MAISON&OBJET in the exhibition center at Paris Nord Villepinte, and the young designers were feted at a celebration attended by design luminaries, dignitaries and the international press. 

Previous editions of the fair have focused on Rising Talents from the United Kingdom, Italy and Lebanon. Like their predecessors, the U.S. Rising Talents will have an unparalleled opportunity to meet and share their ideas with the many manufacturers, interior designers, stylists, buyers, hoteliers, restaurateurs, journalists and trend hunters who attend MAISON&OBJET. 

“After concentrating on Europe, the Middle East and Asia these last few years, we wanted to turn to another great nation of design,” says Philippe Brocart, Managing Director of SAFI, the company that organizes MAISON&OBJET. “The size and cultural diversity of the United States give rise to impressive design achievements, and we are excited to discover the next generation of designers and their influences.” 

THE JURY

Seven eminent design professionals based in the United States applied their far-reaching perspectives in choosing these Rising Talents. Rafael de Cárdenas heads the NewYork-based multidisciplinary practice Architecture at Large, whose clients include Baccarat, Cartier, Christie’s, Dornbracht and the Swatch Group. Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat gave a welcome jolt to the New York design scene eight years ago with the first edition of WantedDesign, their annual trade show that brings international products, exhibitions and presentations to sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Jerry Helling is the president and creative director of Bernhardt Design in North Carolina and the force behind ICFF Studio, an annual showcase of furniture by emerging American designers. Nasir Kassamali shaped American tastes with his modern design store, Luminaire, which he and his wife, Nargis, started in South Florida in 1974 and later expanded to Chicago. In Novem-ber, Luminaire opened its latest showroom in Los Angeles. David Rockwell, the leader of Rockwell Group in NewYork, has been honored repeatedly for his lively designs of offices, residences, hotels, restaurants and Broadway stage sets, for which he has been nominated for six Tony Awards, winning one. Rosanne Somerson, a renowned furniture designer who became president of Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. Through her leadership and in her writings she has emphasized critical making, or the use of hands-on craft as a tool for reflection and problem solving in our technology dominated culture.

THE TALENTS

It is typical of young American designers to flock to geographical centers like Los Angeles, Chicago or Seattle, where they establish creative communities, share resources and trade influences. But if anyone place can be declared the design capital of the United States, it is Brooklyn, NewYork. Among the six Rising American Talents, five are based there.(The sixth, Alex Brokamp, currently lives in Southern California.)
This concentration reflects the individuality of jury choices the jurors recommended award winners based on excellence, not location, and there was no point at which they conferred as a group.

And the winners are…

Alex Brocamp – alexbrocamp.com

Bailey Fontaine – baileyfontaine.com

Green River Project – greenriverprojectllc.com

Harold – haroldharold.com

Kin & Company – kinandcompany.com

Rosie Li – rosiely.com

Join WantedDesign team in September for MAISON&OBJET and Paris Design Week.
Designers, buyers, architects, contact us if you’d like to organize your visit to Paris and join WantedDesign VIP tour.

How Designers are Reimagining Humanity’s Relationship with Nature

Curiosity Cloud designed by mischer’traxler studio on view in Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Photo by Scott Rudd.

In Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, a sound like the plinking of raindrops greets visitors as they immerse themselves within Curiosity Cloud. Designed by mischer’traxler studio, the installation features a curtain of oversized incandescent lightbulbs that illuminate as visitors investigate the lifelike robotic insects flitting within.

Curiosity Cloud is not only a joy to experience, but also a thought-provoking meditation on biodiversity. The insects that the designers emulated are species that are either native or invasive to New York, and the delicate glass bulbs that hold them suggest the fragility of our ecosystems. It is one of 62 works by international designers and design teams featured in the Design Triennial, co-organized with Cube design museum in Kerkrade, Netherlands. In a first for Cooper Hewitt, the exhibition is presented simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic.

Installation view of Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Photo by Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.

The projects in the Design Triennial range from the speculative to the practical. Only the most daring fashion plates might don Fantasma by AnotherFarm, a spectral, three-headed prairie dress woven from glowing silk made by injecting silkworm eggs with coral DNA. But artists around the world have already adopted AIR-INK, the first marker to transform pollution into a pigment. Anirudh Sharma, co-founder of Graviky Labs, spearheaded the project, which is sold at the museum’s gift shop.

View of Monarch Sanctuary designed by Terreform ONE on view in Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Photo by Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.

Monarch Sanctuary, a full-scale model developed by the architecture studio Terreform ONE, exemplifies the exhibition’s sense of optimism. Ultra-sleek in its design and made using 3-D printed molds, the project proposes transforming the facades of commercial buildings in Nolita into vertical refuges for the at-risk butterfly. Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial inspires hope that, through international and cross-disciplinary collaboration, scientists, engineers, environmentalists, and scholars may realign human activity with the laws of nature.

Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is now on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY.

WantedDesign announces new director of retail.

WantedDesign Announces Appointment of Katherine Lock asDirector of Retail

(Brooklyn, NY—June 12, 2019)—WantedDesign announced today the appointment of Katherine Lock as Director of Retail to lead the IC Store by WantedDesign, a newly created position in the company. Lock comes from an accomplished eighteen-year career at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she served in a variety of roles culminating in senior manager of merchandise and product development.
Her work led most recently to write-ups in Architectural Digest and Vogue magazine, covering a capsule collection of over 60 products produced to compliment the acclaimed Hilma af Klint exhibition. Lock assumed her role with WantedDesign on May 13th. “We are excited to bring Katherine’s retail experience and eye for narrative design to the store, which serves to capture and delight the thousands of diverse people who visit and work at Industry City and participate in its many attractions, including WantedDesign Brooklyn + IC Design Festival events each May,” said founders, Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Lock studied fine art at the University of Iowa and maintains a painting practice among her creative pursuits. Lock said, “I am interested in the ways spirited retail presentation and collaborative events can tell the story of design through multiple lenses including history, material, art, culture and social engagement. As I embark on this role, I look forward to building on the store’s dynamic merchandise assortment, casting a spotlight on emerging designers and programming a variety of events that encapsulate WantedDesign’s mission to display innovation and explore creative subjects. I’m excited to further feature some of the great studios working out of IC, such as Sylvan Park, and equally enthusiastic about continuing to offer design product favorites, such as those from the Areaware brand.”

Located at 268 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232, the IC Store by WantedDesign offers a curated assortment of objects, accessories, toys, jewelry, housewares and more. Highlighting the array of independent designers who work out of Industry City as well as cutting edge brands and classics from around the globe, the store is dedicated to designers who help shape and inspire everyday life.

Follow @wanteddesignstore on Instagram to see our latest finds!
Contact Katherine Store@wanteddesignnyc.com

Paintzen Presents How Technology Impacts Color and Design

This year, Paintzen was a sponsor of WantedDesign’s conversation series at NYCxDesign. In addition to being a sponsor, Paintzen’s Senior Director of Marketing, Brand, Kristen Chuber, gave a presentation on technology’s impact on color selection and how professionals can use it for their clients.

What used to be such a personal and subjective choice is now informed by diverse disciples and regionally specific tastes. Technology offers us an endless source of inspiration. With platforms like Pinterest and Instagram, color inspiration is at our fingertips and there is a continuous conversation about good design and style.

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