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

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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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

During Clerkenwell Design Week this year, four designers participated in Design Exquis, a series of exhibitions that explore the dialogue on design through design inspired by the collective method of creation known as the Exquisite Corpse. The designers showing work in this particular exhibition were Dominic Wilcox, Plant&Moss, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and George Oehler. Video brought to you by our friends at Crane.tv .

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WATCH: Design Exquis – Clerkenwell Design Week 2013

Famed Dutch designer Marcel Wanders combined two outdoor summertime favorites – swinging and gardening – into one, super fun design for Droog . The Swing with the Plants is an indoor/outdoor swing whose seat edges can be filled with plants. Better yet, plant some seeds in some soil and watch the vines grow up the ropes to make it look like it has always been hanging from a tree.

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Swing with the Plants by Marcel Wanders for Droog

This awesome lamp combines two of my favorite things: hot pink and lucite. Isn’t it fabulous? And guess what? It’s $29.99!! Gotta love Target….

The real reason I was initially drawn to this lamp is it’s similarity to the Bourgie Lamp. If you’re not familiar with the Bourgie Lamp, we had a great post [with tons of pics] on it last year. The Bourgie Lamp can be quite expensive in it’s originality, especially when springing for the gold or silver model. Thus, there are a TON of knock-offs. [Which even Target has!]

Although many people have problems with knock-offs of iconic modern furniture, I’m not always one of them. What I do prefer is this hot pink and lucite lamp, because it offers a similar style but switches it up with the lamp shade texture and the pop of color. And it’s affordability, of course!

What do you think about this lamp? Are you digging it’s $30 style or would you rather splurge on the Bourgie Lamp?

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Designer Michael Aram studied fine art and lived as an artist in New York in the late 1980s. During that period he traveled to India, where he discovered the indigenous traditions of metalworking. Inspired to work with craftsmen whose skills he felt were greatly untapped, Aram turned his creative energies towards craft-based design, setting up a home and workshop in New Delhi. Today, his line ranges from tableware to furniture

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Where I Work: Michael Aram

During NYCxDesign, at WantedDesign we spotted  Alexander Purcell Rodrigues’ Cartesian chairs, a collaboration with California-based innovative aluminum manufacturer Neal Feay . Named after Descartes’ Cartesian coordinate system – the foundation on which CAD software is built – the simple silhouette of Purcell Rodrigues’s chair goes from function to art form. Made of aircraft-grade aluminum with a faded anodized finish, each chair has a mathematically-generated ornamentation on its surface. Using Neal Feay’s cutting edge aluminum fabrication methodologies that uses minimal waste and unique finishing techniques, couples with generative modeling tools and algorithm-based patterns makes this chair a pretty cool and innovative piece of home decor.

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NYCxDesign 2013: Cartesian Chairs by Alexander Purcell Rodrigues

San Francisco-based Upwell , led by designer Justin Porcano , launched its first product that aims to make your life just a little bit easier. The Walhub isn’t your average switch plate though, this one becomes a dedicated site for your essentials – keys, mail, or your umbrella – by having a spot right by your door. You generally turn your lights off when you leave so your eyes automatically go to the light switch anyway, making it the perfect location for your important items. It comes in two versions, the Hang (with two hooks) and the Keeper (with two hooks and a mail holder), and they’re also a variety of options depending on what type of light switches you have

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Switch Plates Reinvented: Walhub by Upwell