Latest ICFF Features Furniture as Eye Candy

Attending the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is akin to visiting the candy store for designers and architects alike. You have the standard goodies from the big manufacturers, but you also have the surprise sweets from new designers lurking around the corner, and they're tempting you. This year’s ICFF in New York City is full of eye candy from countries around the world and the U.S.

Flux ChairOur first sample is the Flux chair from tulip country, the Netherlands. You can call Flux a folding chair but this isn’t your boring garden-variety folding chair. Flux folds into a beautiful petal-shaped chair and unfolds flat into a light portable piece, ready for travel for parts unknown. Dutch founder Douwe Jacobs was inspired by folding paper sculptures. Jacobs and Tom Schouten, an industrial designer, translated the paper sculpture to a polypropylene material, strong, durable, weather-resistant and recyclable. Flux is available in a rainbow of colors – bright enough to blend into your garden but with enough style to belong in your dining room. 

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This Designer Emphasizes Value

It's springtime, and we're all eager for a fresh start and a change of pace - in our designs, in our businesses, and in ourselves. We can learn about how reinvention can inspire us from New York designer Bill Scroggie, who reinvented his successful design business in order to meet the demands of the new economy.

Photo courtesy Bill ScroggieThe result is Scroggie Studio. In his studio, Bill Scroggie doesn’t only provide design services; he also creates his own line of furnishings, and helps clients take a look at the furnishings they already have and then transform them into beautifully-designed rooms that are bright, fresh, and elegant. 

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