ICFF Spotlights
Sustainable, renewable, natural and recyclable
By Carole Sloan -- Home Accents Today, 7/1/2008
Sustainable, renewable, natural and recyclable were the major buzz words at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York in May.
But design was still at the forefront for the accessories, accent furniture and rug companies showing at the 20th year of the show at the Javits Convention Center. ICFF has morphed from its early years as a venue where products were made from quirky, eye-popping materials to more sophisticated and settled design statements.
Some designs still stretch the limits of imagination, but materials and production requirements are within the realm of production realities.
Design groups from individual countries ranging from Great Britain and Italy — both longtime players at ICFF — to Thailand, Spain and Denmark showed the breadth of each country's design and manufacturing capabilities.
The ICFF also presented its annual editors' awards for design and innovation. This year's winner for body of work was Herman Miller.
The new designer award went to Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Todd Bracher Studio. Amy Helfand was honored for carpet and flooring, and Carnegie was the winner in textiles.
Bloom from British designer Jocelyn Warner is her debut rug — a single peony flower head that fills a 6x6 hand-knotted wool design. Eight shades of red highlight the petals which are transformed into abstract lines.
Turkish design company Gaia & Gino featured a series of grid vases fashioned from aluminum, designed by Jaime Hayon of Spain.
Irish designer Rachel O'Neill creates art out of Velcro, dyeing the tape in colors like this hot pink and fashioning it into hangings and wall art.
The curvy Voido white rocking chair from Magis is made from molded polyethylene and finished with high gloss painted lacquer.
Poplar plywood shaped on a frame of forged bent steel creates an outsized, but comfortable, chair from Susan Woods Studio.
Tom Dixon used unpolished brass with a satin finish as the medium for a series of oversized pieces.
Stile inserts humor into rug design with Bang Bang, a hand-knotted aloe/wool rug by Behrouz Kolhai.
The Forchiere, a positive/negative series of sculptural lighting in black and white Murano glass, was featured at La Murrina of Italy.
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