More than a dozen RISD grads are exhibiting at ICFF and NY Design Week this year. Here is your guide to who they are, what they're exhibiting, and where to find them. Download and print a beautiful PDF guide designed by Laila Ahmadinejad ’01 GD at the end of the post. A big thanks to her and the folks at RISD Alumni Relations for taking the initiative to compile this guide.
Andrea Claire Studio
ICFF Booth 2464
Andrea Claire ’88 BArch
Furniture, Jewelry
Andrea Claire Studio produces bespoke, handcrafted, and custom-made lighting. Fueled by a desire to fuse her two long-term passions: designing spaces and making art, Andrea set out to create a lighting system that satisfies both disciplines, while honoring her commitment to building environmentally green products.
www.andreaclairestudio.com
byAMT Inc.
ICFF Booth 2038 (at ROLLOUT)
Love it or Leave it
Pop-up store at Wanted Design
Alissia Melka-Teichroew ’04 MID
Furniture, Home Goods, Jewelry
New York-based design studio byAMT creates jewelry, home goods, and furniture that tweak expectations and invite delight. They believe in “balancing/synthesizing intelligence and fun, style and functionality.”
www.byamt.com
Grain Design
ICFF Booth 850
Raw + Unfiltered
Chelsea Green ’07 ID
James Minola ’07 MID
Mirrors, Pillows, Wall System
Founded in 2007 at the Rhode Island School of Design, Grain is a collaborative of design thinkers with the shared vision of a more sustainable future. They are driven by the belief that social values and good business are not mutually exclusive, but are in fact partners.
www.graindesign.com
Inigo Elizalde Rugs
ICFF Booth 1043
Inigo Elizalde ’95 PT
Ilene Godofsky ’09 TX
Rugs, Dhurries, Fabric
Inigo Elizalde Rugs is a rug and textile design studio based in New York City. Catering mostly to the trade, the studio is a custom design house that specializes in Nepalese hand knotted rugs, as ell as hand tufted rugs, flat weaves and dhurries.
www.inigoelizalderugs.com
Lindsey Adelman Studio
ICFF Booth 1216
The Future Perfect (55 Great Jones St.)
Love it or Leave it
Lindsey Adelman ’96 ID
Karl Zahn ’03 ID
Kevin Quale ’10 ID
Barrett Hanrahan ’10 ID
Lighting
Lindsey Adelman and her team design and build each fixture to order in their Manhattan studio. Working closely with an extensive group of local suppliers and master craftspeople including glassblowers, machine shops, platers, and casters has allowed the work to evolve naturally over the past five years.
www.lindseyadelman.com
Louie Rigano
Model Citizens Showcase
Louie Rigano ’10 ID
Furniture
Louie Rigano is a recently-graduated independent designer based in New York, where he is pursuing his own design projects in tandem with freelance work. He returned to the US several months ago after completing his year-long Fulbright project in Japan, where he studied traditional aesthetics with master craftsmen.
www.louierigano.com
Noble Goods
Wanted Design
Christopher Moore ’96 MFA SC
Furniture, Home Goods
Noble Goods is a small design and fabrication outfit in Brooklyn, NY. Our debut collection combines wood and resin in innovative ways, both decorative and structural.
www.noblegoods.com
Proper Rugs
ICFF Booth 847
Laila Ahmadinejad ’01 GD
Hand-knotted Rugs
Proper Rugs founder Laila Ahmadinejad is a collector of sights, sounds, scents, of each experience by creating drawings and prose, which are then translated into hand-knotted Tibetan rugs. Proper Rugs explores her passion for visual storytelling, and turns ephemeral moments into tactile and enduring objects.
www.properrugs.com
Rich Brilliant Willing
ICFF Booth 1936
Theo Richardson ’06 FD
Charles Brill ’06 FD
Alex Williams ’06 FD
Furniture
Rich Brilliant Willing is America’s premier contemporary lighting and furniture design manufacturer. Harnessing the dynamic interplay of 3 designers yields results that are intelligent and iconic. Simple yet expressive products that bring out the very best in new living and work environments.
www.richbrilliantwilling.com
Studio Dunn
ICFF Booth 858
Asher Dunn ’08 ID
Andrew Mau ’09 FD
Emily Woratzeck ’11 FD
Furniture
Studio Dunn is a small furniture company that creates original, hand worked hardwood designs. We are inspired by the richness of American heritage and by the ingenuity that can only be found in a hand involved design process.
www.studiodunn.com
Tracy Glover Studio
ICFF Booth 2520
Tracy Glover ’88 GLASS
Lighting
Glass artist Tracy Glover produces custom floor lamps, table lamps, pendant lamps, wall sconces, rugs, vases and decorative hardware, all incorporating her precision-crafted handblown glassworks. Tracy offers her work through retailers nationwide, as well as to the trade for residential, commercial and hospitality applications.
www.tracygloverstudio.com
Vim & Vigor Design Inc.
ICFF Booth 868
Irina Kozlovskaya ’05 ID
Aaron Tsul ’03 ID
Joo Young Lim ’10 ID
Jon Eng ’11 ID
Lighting
Vim & Vigor is a product and graphic design consultancy. They are passionate about designing products that are refined, beautiful, emotive, imaginative and highly functional. They help their clients achieve success by creating elegant solutions and carrying them fully intact through the entire design process.
www.vimvigordesign.com
Volk Furniture
ICFF Booth 2453
Brian Volk-Zimmerman ’99 PT
Furniture
Volk Furniture is a Brooklyn-based company dedicated to the design and fabrication of hand-crafted, traditionally joined and finished wood furniture. Drawers lined with shirting fabric and antique organ stops re-tasked as drawer pulls are some of the carefully-considered details which make each Volk piece distinctive.
www.volkfurniture.com
Vonnegut/Kraft
ICFF Booth 2510
Katrina Vonnegut ’09 FD
(Featuring textiles by Isabel Wilson ’08 TX)
Furniture
Vonnegut/Kraft is a design/build studio located in the greater metropolitan area of New York City. Founded by Katrina Vonnegut and Brian Kraft, the studio makes limited editions of furniture and textiles.
www.katrinalvonnegut.com
Yube Cube
ICFF Booth 2353
Philip Karl ’94 ID
Furniture
Yube is a modular furniture system comprised of recyclable and biodegradable materials. You can assemble the modules into any furniture design and configure, build and decorate to suit your personal style. Create tables, desks, shelves, and more by simply snapping each Yube Cube together.
www.yubecube.com
Table Fights
Magnan Metz Gallery
521 W. 26th Street
May 20, 1pm–3pm
Annie Evelyn ’99/’07 FD
Shaun Bullens ’07 FD
Cara Blaine ’08 FD
Chloris Lowe ’09 MFA FD
A diverse group of furniture makers, sculptors, designers, engineers and hobbyists from around the country come together to build fully automated, remote controlled, fighting tables. Gritty and intentionally absurd, with the grandeur of a prize fight and chaos of a cock fight, it is furniture performance art.
www.tablefights.com
International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF)
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
11th Avenue at 38th Street
New York, New York
Saturday, May 19, 10am–5pm
Sunday, May 20, 10am–5pm
Monday, May 21, 9am–6pm
Tuesday, May 22, 10am–4pm
RISD Party at Knoll New York
76 9th Avenue, 11th Floor
May 21, 6:30pm–8:30pm
RSVP REQUIRED
Love it or Leave It
Gallery R’Pure
3 E. 19th Street
May 19–June 1, 11am–5pm
Model Citizens
477 Broadway/52 Mercer (at Broome)
May 19–21, 10am–7pm
Opening night drinks: May 19, 5pm–8pm
Raw + Unfiltered (American Design Club)
Heller Gallery
420 W. 14th Street
May 20, 6pm–9pm
Wanted Design
The Tunnel
269 11th Avenue
May 19–21, 10am–7pm