Commune for Environment

Two LA-based companies create a sustainable range of semi-modular furniture

While many designers during NYC Design Week staked their savings on exploring the limits of material and form, Los Angeles-based design studio Commune stuck to their guns for their debut collection in collaboration with Environment. By relying on simple, paired down designs and tirelessly attractive materials, Commune—best known for designing interiors for The Standard and the Ace Hotel Swim Club—the American-made line is adaptable and …

Stand Alone Mirrors at NYC Design Week

Five designers free the mirror from its wall-mounted constraints

The idea of round hanging mirrors with thick leather straps may have blossomed with modernist designer Jacques Adnet’s “Circulaire” mirror—the result of a partnership with Hermés in the 1950s—but over the past two years we’ve seen it bloom even further, becoming both a design fair favorite and coveted home furnishing. What’s the next logical step for forward-thinking designers? Taking the mirror off the wall altogether, …

Bec Brittain

The New York-based lighting designer's flamboyant and playful solo show for NYCxDesign

by LinYee Yuan Since establishing her own studio in 2009, New York-based lighting designer Bec Brittain has established herself with stripped down, crystalline forms in brass and glass. During this year’s New York design week, the designer showed a more flamboyant and playful perspective, debuting four new pieces in her first solo show at E.R. Butler’s SoHo showroom. The exhibition expands on the design vocabulary …