(We have a ton of ICFF reporting from P2. Here's the first dispatch!)
How do you answer the oft-asked question: "What IS 'contemporary'?"
Well, based on the offerings at this year's ICFF, there's no one or even a right answer:
• It's brand new slabs of 100-year-old reclaimed timber.
• It's candy-coated color.
• It's design icons (alive and dead) around
since the Fifties.
• It's a surface that begs to be touched.
• It's a chair that couldn't EVER be comfortable.
The list goes on and on... So, while the ICFF gave no clear answer to what "contemporary" *is*, it rewarded the design enthusiast with lots lots of inspiration and lots of good ol' design porn.
That said, not everything was worthy of even momentary capture on a Memory Stick. Some booths were car wrecks. The following are my picks, steering clear of the wrecks.
Umbra
Umbra showed designs in more organic materials (colored leather chairs and stepped and carved walnut mirrors and boxes) alongside their more typical designs in plastics (the Karim Rashid Oh chair) and metals, without losing their modern spin.
P2 - Nice job!! MORE PLEASE!!!!
Lutron is great, but super pricy. Check out the Insteon stuff from smarthome.com. I'm using a bunch of it, and it's quite a showstopper. Very pretty color changable LEDs for the dimmers, all easily networkable with adjustable ramp-up/ramp-down rates.
In my theater I can control all the lighting from my remote, which always causes excitement with new guests.
That alabaster resin chair looks gorgeous.
Not at all crazy about the jigsaw puzzle
Eames chair.
P2,thanks for all the legwork scouting and reporting.
gekko--
You're welcome! It was a pure blast, actually.
Not everything I sent photos of were things I really loved... (I agree with you about the puzzle leather, actually, at least *on* that chair) Some things I loved, some things I just thought ATers would be interested in seeing.
I also paid NO mind to budget. Which was DELIGHTFUL. :)
p(too),
Thank you.
anyone know where can you get the Martha Sturdy chandelier in the US? price? (I emailed her HQ and got no response and it is not on her web site)
Please have Melissa contact us again at 604-872-5205, or at my e-mail address above regarding Martha Sturdy's resin chandelier. I'd be happy to give her information on ordering from us.
It should be on the website very soon!