Noho Next – NoHo Design District

350 Bowery
Saturday May 15 – Tuesday May 18, 12PM to 7PM

In partnership with StyleFactory and Wabnitz Editions, the Noho Design District introduces its first annual emerging talent showcase: Noho Next, featuring the work of nine up-and-coming designers under one roof. The Brooklyn-based sustainable furniture studio Uhuru (whose Cyclone Lounger is pictured above) is showing its new Coney Island line, crafted in wood reclaimed from the demolition of the park’s iconic boardwalk. Washington, D.C.’s Jonah Takagi debuts a pendant lamp and flat-pack shelving inspired by bamboo scaffolding and Lincoln Logs. Jonathan Nesci will exhibit pieces from his recent show at Chicago’s Volume Gallery, while two young Spaniards — ceramicist Xavier Mañosa of Apparatu and graphic designer Alex Trochut — have collaborated to produce ceramic cocktail-themed floats from around the world and vases inspired by the ugliest jacket ever designed. Matthew Bradshaw and Sergio Silva are showing a new glass table floating on wooden legs, and Gregory Buntain introduces Sonderstuhl, an angular wood chair. Finally, Noah Packard’s Cantilever Sofa will help introduce the soon-to-launch e-tailer StyleFactory, which uses crowd-sourcing to develop furniture and home accessories for manufacture and sale.

www.uhurudesign.com
www.ateliertakagi.com
www.hale-id.com
www.wvvolumes.com
www.apparatu.com
www.gregorybuntain.com
matthewbradshaw.net
www.sergiosilva.us

ABOUT THE SPONSORS
Stylefactory is a new e-commerce site for furniture and lifestyle products, with an emphasis on crowd-sourcing and community involvement. Visitors to StyleFactory become community members by voting and commenting on products, then join together to make product sales happen. The StyleFactory team finds the best design products from individual designers and design firms where users vote for designs they want to be made. StyleFactory is serious about responsible, high-quality manufacture, only working with quality design firms and manufacturers to ensure the consumer a durable product that will last. StyleFactory manufactures on demand and delivers factory direct to the consumer to eliminate overproduction and the waste that it creates. The StyleFactory brand represents honest design.

With additional support from Wilma Wabnitz, founder and CEO of Wabnitz Editions, which imports Dutch design and decorative arts for the American market. Wabnitz Editions represents many top designers working in the Netherlands today, including Hella Jongerius, Jo Meesters, and Marcel Wanders, as well as the firms Droog, Royal VKB, and Royal Tichelaar Makkum, among many others.

Jonathan Nesci’s The New collection for Chicago’s Volume Gallery