Azure – September 2019

044 _ _SEPT 2019

Prismatic colour has been infiltrating furniture design for some time
now. But at NYCxDesign, pastel hues permeated the most impervious
of materials. At the Matter showroom, Federica Elmo’s Ondamarmo table
boasted an uneven multichromatic finish that seemed airbrushed onto
its Carrara surface. A standout from the young designers at ICFF Studio,
Chapel Petrassi’s polished aluminum Gaby tables feature tops that morph
in hue from pastel green to red or light blue to rose. Even in more practi-
cal realms, bold colour was embraced: Witness Kast Concrete Basins’
latest sinks in a range of eye-popping shades.

AT ICFF AND BEYOND, CLASSIC MATERIALS –
WOOD, CONCRETE, MARBLE – WERE REIMAGINED
IN RAINBOW HUES

WORDS _Elizabeth Pagliacolo

Colour

Theories

ONDAMARMO

For her Memphis-evoking

marble table, shown at

Matter, Federica Elmo

developed a 3D inkjet

printing process that

uses liquid paint. The

result is ethereal.

mattermatters.com

CREEPIES

Roughly chopped firewood was the starting point

for these stools that Rickard Whittingham designed for

Tools for Everyday Life, a project from the Northumbria

School of Design, shown at ICFF. Matte milk paint – in

a palette inspired by workshop machinery – “somewhat

tames” the Creepies, according to Whittingham.

toolsforeverydaylife.com

GABY

Chapel Petrassi (Marie-Charlotte Bassi

and Diego Petroso) dazzled at ICFF

Studio with this vibrant coffee table.

Handcrafted in Italy, it has a wood

base clad in golden-mirror aluminum.

chapelpetrassi.com

KAST CANVAS COLLECTION
British brand Kast Concrete Basins presented its new collection – Iva, Luna
and Otto – in a spectrum of 28 colours that play up the sinks’ horizontal,
vertical and diagonal fluting. kastconcretebasins.com

Best in Show _NYCxDesign 2019