New York Design Week 2008

17 - 20 May 2007

The 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair, ICFF at the York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

North America's singular showcase for contemporary design, the Fair draws the most intrepid seekers of design truth and design trends to an extraordinary exhibition of the most inspires models of design on the forefront, as well as though-provoking programs and a schedule of supplementary exhibits and features.

During the Fair's four days, 145,000 net square feet (14,500 net square meters) of the Javits Center will bustle with more than 25,000 interior designers, architects, retailers, designers, manufacturers, representatives, distributors, and developers. Members of the general public are welcome on Tuesday, May 20 when the ICFF is open to all comers.

More than 600 exhibitors will display contemporary furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath for residential and commercial interiors. This assemblage of national and international exhibitors affords the chance to experience the most selective scope of the globe's finest, most creative, individual, and original avant-garde home and contract products – handily and temptingly showcased in one venue.

Moss

150 Greene Street

with:
Studio Job, Robber Baron, the complete Suite

tales of power, corruption, art and industry, cast in bronze

In May 2007, Moss previewed the Cabinet—the first fully realized piece from the Suite of five elements which comprise Studio Job’s ambitious masterwork, Robber Baron. The four additional pieces—Jewel Safe, Table, Standing Lamp and Mantle Clock—at the time as yet unrealized, were presented as drawings. One year later, we are proud to present Robber Baron, the complete Suite.

Pyramids of Makkum

Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, to repair their late 17th century Delft flower pyramid—an exuberant, monumental multiple layer flower vase created in response to Europe’s “tulip mania”—Royal Tichelaar Makkum, the renowned 16th century Dutch manufactory, spent years researching the long-lost techniques necessary to recreate such a massive and complex composition.

Inspired by that research, Managing Director Jan Tichelaar commissioned four Dutch artists:
Hella Jongerius
Studio Job
Jurgen Bey
Alexander van Slobbe
to create contemporary flower pyramids, thereby adding to the noble lineage of this ancient object as well as this ancient manufactory.

Made by Bees
ephemeral constructions by Tomas Gabzdil / Studio Libertiny

Through this Rotterdam-based Slovakian designer’s ingenious intervention, a colony of over 40,000 bees created Libertiny’s remarkable classically-shaped Honeycomb vase. In contract, his monumental Amphora was cast from seven different qualities of beeswax. Like treasures exhibted in a 17th century noble Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Wonders) these contemproary artifacts are an exceptional synthesis of nature, science, mathematics and art.