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The NoHo Design District is a not-to-be-missed part of New York Design Week featuring events and exhibitions in the NoHo neighborhood. The four day event is curated by Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer of Sight Unseen and being in the fourth year, they’ve hit their stride as a design destination. Spike and Thorn Chandelier by Lindsey Adelman We hit up Lindsey Adelman’s new private showroom that was open to the public during this time. The lighting designer has taken the New York design scene by storm with her instantly recognizable fixtures, some of which were on display in the showroom, along with a curated selection of artwork. Catch fixtures by Lindsey Adelman Branching fixture by Lindsey Adelman Next up was Model Citizens NYC , an exhibit featuring up and coming and independent designers from around the world.

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NYCxDesign 2013: NoHo Design District

Spanish designer Jaime Hayon’s latest collaboration with Republic of Fritz Hansen is called Ro, a new take on the easy chair. If you remember, we featured it a few weeks back , and we’ve been thinking about it every since. We were really excited to get the chance during NYCxDesign to sit down (in Ro!) with Hayon at the Fritz Hansen NYC showroom to talk about this new design. Watch: Our favorite quote: “If you look at your body, I don’t think you have any square parts.” Special thanks to Republic of Fritz Hansen for making this video possible

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Watch: Jaime Hayon for Republic of Fritz Hansen VIDEO

One of the coolest NYC design stores, The Future Perfect , launched a new private label furniture collection at ICFF with seating and lighting design by Lindsey Adelman, Charles de Lisle, Jason Miller and Russell Pinch. The collection begins with three sofas, a chair and a chandelier that are more transitional than cutting edge modern, with a focus on traditional craftsmanship and methodology.

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NYCxDesign 2013: The Future Perfect Furniture Collection

Designer Tom Dixon never disappoints and this year he really stepped up his game. Besides having a booth featuring new products, he also had a pop-up manufacturing booth that was actually making limited edition Punch Ball fixtures (above). Dixon partnered with Trumpf Inc who brought in the high tech machines cranking out the creations and set up shop so visitors could watch the process

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ICFF 2013: Part 2

Back in March we featured Heather McGinn , head of the LA office of ALLTHATISSOLID . This week’s  Friday Five features Alex Chew, the partner in charge of the Kuala Lumpur office.

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Friday Five with Alex Chew of ALLTHATISSOLID

A simple block of Carrara marble becomes a smart device to measure you spaghetti noodles. Designed by Studio Lievito , TYPE has four notched out sections in the marble that hold the correct amount of pasta portions for one, two, three, or four people, taking the guess work out of cooking. When not in use, it can sit on the counter and look like a beautiful kitchen accessory.

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Measure Your Spaghetti: TYPE by Studio Lievito

The Stella Triangle light from Roll & Hill was mesmerizing to look at from any angle as the optical illusions created were pretty trippy. Tamera Leigh Staten’s beautiful Oona lights were made of smoked blown glass and a movable copper section that slides around to reveal an opening for changing the bulb. We featured Wishbone Woodworking’s well-made, handcrafted wood furniture before  and they showcased some new pieces that carry on what the company does best. Klemens Schilling displayed these covetable concrete  Arena Bowls that can hold your accessories or just sit there on your table looking really cool. Leftovers , also from Klemens Schilling, is an easily made stool or table made from bags of leftover concrete mix

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ICFF 2013: Part 4

Home to more architects per square metre than anywhere else in the world, Clerkenwell is a natural setting for a celebration of design and architecture. Now in its forth year, Clerkenwell Design Week hit London on May 21-23 and was bigger and better than ever.

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Favorites from Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

Japanese design studio Nendo designed a simple wooden storage shelf with circular-shaped glass discs that serve as the doors. The design was inspired by “the historical practice of cutting sheet glass from glass discs” and the resulting transparent discs retain that beautiful, handmade quality about them. The discs rotate in the shelf’s slots when you use the finger-sized handles to move them. The glass has bubbles and depressions in the surface that help distort the objects you place on the shelves behind them. The shelf was part of a larger exhibition called “Glassworks by Nendo” at the Dilmos Gallery in Milan.

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Rotating Glass Discs Shelving Unit by Nendo

Rug designer Nani Marquina of  nanimarquina partnered with celebrated graphic designer Milton Glaser for a one-of-a-kind rug. A portrait of Shakespeare is layered with an abstract pattern to form a beautifully textured rug that reveals his face when far away and a pattern when close up. When you think of Waterworks you tend to think of bath fixtures but they’ve designed a series of glass lights as part of their Watt collection for Dering Hall . The ribbed series of lighting, that comes in sconce or pendant form, resembles those glass insulator covers you often still see at antique shops. The Chubby Chairs from Dirk Vander Kooij are just as fascinating to look at as hearing about how they are made

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ICFF 2013: Part 3