From the Editors' Inbox: October 2016
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For its Collection #3, New York design gallery Chamber has paired with curator Matylda Krzykowski of Depot Basel. The first installation of the four-part exhibition is titled "Just What Is It," a riff on an early Pop work by Richard Hamilton. The show renders collage into a three-dimensional assemblage of objects by contemporary designers including Design Displacement Group, Nick van Woert, mischer’traxler studio, and 2016 Young Gun alumni Louie Rigano and Gil Muller of Shore Rugs. Collection #3 runs through May 2017, with "Just What Is It" open until December 3, 2016, at Chamber, 515 W. 23rd St., New York. chambernyc.com Installation image by Lauren Coleman
FF Berlage by Donald Beekman is the newest typeface from FontShop. Inspired by architect Hendrik Pieter Berlage, the father of modern architecture in Holland, the font is based on the lettering on two of the designer's most famous buildings, Amsterdam's Beurs van Berlage and De Burcht. fontshop.com
New York's Museum of Modern Art has just announced the acquisition of NTT DOCOMO’s original set of 176 emoji, first designed for cell phones in 1999, to its permanent collection, citing: "These 12 x 12 pixel humble masterpieces of design planted the seeds for the explosive growth of a new visual language." The now-ubiquitous glyph set joins other digital designs, such as the '@' symbol and a series of video games, which were acquired by the Architecture and Design department in 2010 and 2012, respectively.
On November 10, 2016, Thos. Moser opens a new showroom in Philadelphia, where the furniture maker launched his first space outside of Maine back in 1984. The brand's 2,900-square-foot space in Center City—which sets the new tone for the brand's showrooms nationwide—will display the new Foreside bed and mirror, seen here. thosmoser.com
From October 21–November 10, Seletti pops up a shop of surreal rugs featuring the designs of TOILETPAPER's Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Made of recycled PVC, the 9-foot-by-6.5-foot "Fingers" retails for $1,430. The latest part of the Seletti wears TOILETPAPER collection, the exhibition—with a mix of 13 round and rectangular rug designs spanning the space's floors and walls—runs from three weeks at the Dream Factory space, corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 117, Milan. seletti.it
This year's New Material Award prize goes to Olivier van Herpt, who designed and built a 3D printer that can deposit layers of undiluted clay with fine detail. newmaterialaward.nl
Patrick Parrish Gallery presented this week The Ends of Invention, an exhibition by artist Chris Beeston. Beeston's work may appear simple, but his speakers and lights made from dollar store items, such as Tupperware, are meticulously well-executed.
Scent-To-Home is a subscription-style, try-before-you-buy candle service from Keap, a startup founded by two ex-Google employees and based in New York's Industry City. For $15, customers get a scent "discover set," the cost of which can be applied to a full-sized candle. A dollar of each candle's sale goes to SolarAid, which helps distribute solar lamps to entrepreneurs in East Africa. keapbk.com
Artist Alexis Dahan opens a new solo exhibition next month at New York's Coburn Projects gallery. The show will feature a series of his charcoal drawings of cobblestone streets from around the world. Seeking to "represent the road as an object in itself by removing the destination," says the artist, "these paths have no beginning and no end."