Icff/ New York Design Week
New York Design Week
For the last five years TreeHugger has visited the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, looking to find the best in sustainable design, new materials, new ways of dealing with small spaces and meeting people working on the cutting edge of green design. This year we also visit WantedDesign.
Featured Stories in Icff/ New York Design Week
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Young designers impress at ICFF
Between the Designboom Mart, the Bernhardt Design exhibitors and the student work, young designers give ICFF its spark.
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Prefab lifeguard and comfort stations on New York beaches will open by Memorial Day
They have done in five months what normally times four years, in a process that should be a model for how it's done.
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Old is new again with Russel Wright and Mel Smilow as we add another R to our list: Reissue
Classic Mid-Century modern designs are back at ICFF.
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What Makes Ecosystem Paper Notebooks Green Instead of Greenwash?
They were holding a stationery show on the floor above ICFF at the Javits Center in New York, and every door had a sticker advertising an "Ecosystem" green notebook. My first reaction was surprise that the name was available, and second was that it was
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The Latest from MIO: Flatpack Pop-Up Bike Baskets
Another year, another great new product from MIO, who we have been covering since TreeHugger started. This year they offer these clever flatpack bicycle baskets. It is part of their "Design on the Go" series of pop-up products.
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Every Parent Will Want this Green Modern Doll's House with Working Solar Electric System
Create your own scenes from Unhappy Hipsters with the Brinca Dada modernist doll's house; these days most people can only afford a house this big anyways. Hoping to be the Joseph Eichler of the doll house biz, Douglas Rollins hired young
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Public Bikes Launches in New York with Style
Public Bikes claims that it's not a bike company, but is a "more livable cities" company. Founder Rob Forbes launched Public Bikes in New York at ICFF with a big public ride from Javits Center in midtown to the Tretorn store in SOHO. Forbes calls his
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Camping at Home: Minimalist Living from Snow Peak
Snow Peak makes camping equipment. But as our lifestyles become more mobile and our homes become smaller, furniture that is light, minimal and can be folded up when it isn't needed makes some sense. The stuff is beautifully made and looked as good as
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Transformer Desk from Urbancase Discreetly Hides Your Computer
For years, TreeHugger has been showing designs that help integrate work and living by making your computer hardware go away when the workday is over. It is less of a problem than it used to be, as our work hardware becomes our entertainment
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Booth Trends: Live Action Demonstration Instead of Passive Presentation
You don't just drop your product and hire the booth babes anymore; The big trend at ICFF this year was live action. Finnish furniture company Artek (founded in 1935 by designers including Alvar and Aino Aalto) demonstrate their
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The Designer's Material of the Year: Cork
Last year at ICCF the material du jour was felt; while its presence is still being, well, felt, this year the stuff that dreams are made of is cork. And not just thin sheets of cork but big honking blocks of the stuff. It is post-industrial recycled
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Personalized Street Grid Stainless Steel Earrings: You Pick the Place
Two years ago I called Fluid Earth "a fabulous mashup of technology, art and design to make what must be the most creative use yet of Google Earth, CNC technology and online shopping." Now, at the designboom mart I find the same technology applied to
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Canadian Cabin for Fluffy Little Critters from Loyal Luxe
Cats love cardboard boxes, any old cardboard box. So it takes some marketing skill to convince people to actually pay money for a cardboard box. Loyal Lux designs its cardboard box, which "distinguishes itself through its innovative design
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ICFF Preview: Hottest New Furniture Designs From A to Z (Slideshow)
It's not Milan, but the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York is North America's biggest design show. Live at the fair, we'll be seeking out the latest in green design -- and sometimes, we admit, it might be a bit of a
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ICFF Preview: Hottest New Furniture Designs From A to Z
TreeHugger is off to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) this week to find the best in green design. Last year we noted that not everything we show on TreeHugger is deep green, but everything has some kernel of an idea that is interesting
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Things I Missed At ICFF (Slideshow)
New York Design Week and ICFF are a lot for one person to take in, and I have been kicking myself around the blogoverse about some of the things that I missed while there. Fortunately we have wonderful resources in other blogs
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Stilvoll's Standup Desk: The (Video) Remake
My favourite thing at ICFF 2008 was the gorgeous Stilvoll adjustable standup desk; beautifully made of sustainably harvested woods, built to last forever and adjust from desk to standup height. It was also the very first thing I ever filmed, and I did
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Reassemble the Mosspink Sofa From Brühl (Video)
The whole Brühl family gets involved in the display of the award-winning MossPink sofa in the German design section; it was designed by Kati Meyer-Brühl and is occupied by Anna Meyer-Brühl, who demonstrates its functions in the video.
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Transformer Furniture: Test Collective's Coffee Table/ Sk8tr Ramp
We do love multifunctional furniture, but usually the functions are prosaic and practical. Not at the Test Collective. which has produced a coffee table that you can take outside (or I suppose leave inside) and use as a sk8tr ramp. It is made from
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Dumpster Divers Turn Cardboard into Lighting (Video)
photo credit: Inhabitat, who did a much better job
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Eve Blossom Of Lulan Announces Design Competion (video)
Lulan is another favorite of TreeHugger; Eve Blossom employs over six hundred weavers in a business model that "has evolved to embrace "sustainability" in a dynamic and profound sense of the word."
