Azure – September 2019

(Amelia) #1

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

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