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VinFast | 2022 NYIAS
While the 2022 New York Auto Show was a pared down event with many of the usual automakers absent, it did leave space for some newcomers. The highest profile of those is VinFast, a relatively new EV brand hailing from Vietnam. And if their presence at NYC is a gauge, you’ll be seeing a lot…
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Carl Hansen & Søn | Soho Showroom
New York’s Soho Design District wasn’t immune to the Covid-19 downturn. A few longtime showrooms have abandoned the area since 2019. However, Danish furniture icon Carl Hansen & Søn recently opened their first consumer-oriented showroom in NYC as the virus appears to be in retreat and restrictions begin to lift. The new flagship showroom is…
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Lamp Show | Head Hi
Brooklyn’s Head Hi is an art and design focused bookstore and cafe conveniently located a couple blocks from Seen.Today’s HQ. Since 2019, the front bookshop space has been transformed once a year to host the Lamp Show, an annual international exhibition of creative light fixtures. The 2022 edition features nearly 50 pieces from both seasoned…
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Pavilions | Lisson Gallery
I nearly missed this exhibition thanks to a combination of NYC’s typical cold and miserable weather plus the short late January to mid February run length. With a couple of days before the close and snow mostly gone, I made it the Lisson Gallery to see Pavilions. The exhibition explores the blurry area between art…
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François Chambard | Angels
It was sad news to read that the Cooler Gallery in Brooklyn was closing in the summer of 2021. I featured the final show within the former Brooklyn Navy Yard commissary cooler location last year. While Seen.Today is intended to focus more on the aesthetic qualities of design, how things are made indeed has a…
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Accidents Will Happen
Friedman Benda’s first exhibition of 2022 delves into a design period I’m quite fond of. Accidents Will Happen: Creative Salvage, 1981-1991 is the first international exhibit of dedicated to Creative Salvage furniture design. It is in essence DIY meets Mad Max, taking castoff industrial materials and repurposing them into design objects. The exhibit includes early…