Pavilion of Art & Design New York

The famed fair for high quality historic design and contemporary wares travels from Paris to New York for the first time

Founded 15 years ago in Paris, the Pavilion of Art & Design brings together some of Europe’s most interesting galleries and dealers focused on modern, decorative and tribal art. In 2007 PAD co-founders Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot took the show on the road to London, and now the art savants have set up shop in New York at the Park Avenue Armory. Perrin and …

Broached Commissions

Prison, wooden spikes and bedrock in an Australian design collective's first history-based collection

When it came time for a concept to drive new design consortium Broached Commissions, rather than turn to exotic, far-flung influences, the firm looked to much more provincial sources—literally their backyard. Founded by Creative Director Lou Weis, the Melbourne-based collective includes three permanent designers, Trent Jansen, Adam Goodrum and Charles Wilson, who collaborate with an annually rotating cast of contributors on products related to Australian …

Rev–>Table

Furniture with built-in blueprints hints at the localized future of manufacturing

One of the design leaders in the movement to erase boundaries between digital and physical worlds, John Kestner’s company Supermechanical recently brought its first product to market. Kestner, a MIT Media Lab alumni who we first profiled for his earlier interactive projects and went on to include in our Audi Icon series, has created Rev–>Table, which rejects the modern model of hard goods consumption by …