Design & Architecture

Recycled rubber, nero marquina marble, cast concrete, LEED-certified tire byproduct: these are the materials Arielle Assouline-Lichten keeps returning to.

Caitlin Mociun starts with the stone.

Seiter's starting point is always what's already there: the weed pushing through cracked asphalt, the post-industrial soil that nobody catalogued.

Trained in classical ballet before she ever touched a sewing machine, Iris van Herpen treats the body as a moving system: something that generates force, not just wears cloth.

Gulsum Keskinoglu trained as a sculptor in Turkey (first at Isparta Anatolian Fine Art High School, then in the studio of sculptor Tevfik Turen Karagozoglu) before landing in Williamsburg and opening Awita New York Studio in May 2023.

Jennifer Waverek founded BKLYN CLAY to provide practicing and experienced creatives with access to quality ceramics space.

Mirrors are the starting point, but the question Bower Studios keeps asking is more slippery: what does a familiar object have to do to make you stop and look? Founded in 2013 by Danny Giannella and Tammer Hijazi (both former fabricators at Uhuru Design) the Brooklyn studio CNC-cuts its mirrors in-house, bends steam-curved walnut frames, and laminates tinted glass to construct pieces that play geometry against perception.

Stone, brass, hard maple, walnut, Brazilian soapstone: the material comes first at Fort Standard.

Weeds are not a problem to solve at Future Green Studio: they're a design prompt.

Lichen runs on the premise that good design shouldn't require a trust fund or a design degree to access.

Makeville Studio believes everyone should experience the satisfaction of working with your hands.

Caitlin Mociun starts with the stone.

Wood arrives at 276 Greenpoint Avenue as raw slab (American black walnut, spalted maple, cherry, oak) air-dried for up to eighteen months before a hand touches it.

Satellite imagery, CCTV archives, 3D game engines, geospatial analysis.

Recycled tire rubber was not supposed to be the starting material for a furniture practice.

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu (a Dutch architect who trained under SANAA in Tokyo and a Chinese-American architect schooled at Tulane) founded SO–IL in Brooklyn in 2008 with a question embedded in the name: what are solid objectives, exactly? The studio works across perforated-metal residential facades, mesh-and-hammock public installations, affordable housing courtyards, and art campus galleries, but the through-line isn't typological.

UrbanGlass was founded in 1977 by three recent art school graduates.

Founded in 2012 out of a Bloomberg Administration survey that mapped the scale of New York's design economy, NYCxDESIGN started as a City Council initiative and has since become the city's official annual design festival: a nonprofit that coordinates a week of independently hosted events across studios, showrooms, schools, trade floors, and public plazas in all five boroughs.