FROM COPENHAGEN WITH LOVE
Recently SUITE NY hosted an event showcasing designs by five outstanding furniture brands that have one unique feature in common: they are all based in metro Copenhagen. The brands included century-old cabinetmakers Rud Rasmussen and their iconic designs by Kaare Klint, Lange Production who launched two new designs including the HB Bar Cart and JK 810...
DE PADOVA’S NEW FLAGSHIP
Two weeks ago, SUITE NY Principal Maria Sepulveda attended the private opening of De Padova’s new showroom at via Santa Cecilia in Milan. A stark contrast to the brand’s former flagship showroom of almost 50 years which was made up entirely of soaring windows, this new space by Piero Lissoni is decidedly sexier, with a deep and moody...
GUBI NEWS – FALL 2015
At the fall 2015 Maison & Objet show in Paris, trend-setting Danish manufacturer GUBI presented a half dozen new designs including mirrors by Italian master Gio Ponti, a killer dining table by Space Copenhagen, and a timeless collection of lighting by Greta Grossman. These new collections are a continuation of GUBI’s quest to launch stylish and significant designs...
A NOD TO NENDO
When 37-year-old Oki Sato launched studio Nendo ten years ago, who could have imagined he would become one of the most inspiring, prolific, and celebrated furniture and product designers of his generation. Nendo, meaning ‘modelling clay’, expresses Sato’s desire to have a certain flexibility and the ability to reinvent oneself. The studio, who has created works for SUITE...
5 FRESH DINING CHAIRS
Eliel Saarinen, famed architect and father of Eero Saarinen, once said, “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” Today, with that strategy in mind, we present five very different modern dining...
NEW BASSAMFELLOWS 2015
Exits Gallery in the Brera district of Milan has a long, rich history of supporting groundbreaking modern art and design. Occupied for the last few years by Connecticut-based design duo Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows of BassamFellows, the gallery’s latest furniture exhibition is an unequivocal knockout. ...