Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 9 May 2013

Design Hunting
5.9.13
Happenings
  •  Sweet Design 
    The Fabrico Próprio founders talk with design critic Akiko Busch on Friday at 7 p.m. at Van Alen Books to kick off “counter/point,” the School of Visual Art’s annual design-criticism conference. 
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  •  What’s the Park For?
    For the latest installment of Central Park’s “Social Hour” series, Marie Warsh, director of preservation planning for the Central Park Conservancy, will speak on May 15 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Dana Discovery Center. MORE  ›
  •  All of the Lights 
    With “Water Light Graffiti,” French digital artist Antonin Fourneau combined the two media and added a contemporary twist: a thirteen-foot board comprising smaller LED panels illuminated by the contact of water. The installation will be featured at NYCxDesign on May 13, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.MORE  ›
Design Hunting

SPACE OF THE WEEK

If These Walls Could Talk

Inside artist Nicola L.’s Chelsea Hotel apartment on the eve of her new documentary, Doors Ajar at the Chelsea Hotel. SEE MORE ›

The apartment is filled with Nicola’s conceptual art and furniture.

Nicola’s fireplace is adorned with her 1968 Lips lamp.

Describing her film: “We buildings speak, but you humans cannot hear us.”

The Best Bet

Acapulco Lounger

The fifties-era Acapulco lounger zooms into the present day with a shock of electric-blue PVC cording.MORE  ›