If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper. That was the sage advice proffered in a famous 1970s perfume advertisement. The lesson still applies today, as New York–based industrial and interior designer Billy Cotton has demonstrated in his seductive new product collections and the stylishly understated Brooklyn showroom he has conceived to display them.

Keen to distinguish the Armory Show, which is facing competition from almost 300 other contemporary art fairs around the world, the New York art fair’s executive director, Benjamin Genocchio, is playing up the gritty industrial space of Piers 92 and 94 on the Hudson River.

New York designer Lindsey Adelman has created a collection of lamps that appear to be made from melting glass.

DDG with the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at ASU proudly present the Talks Theater, a collaborative platform for the presentation of leading design thinkers and doers.

Biophilia is the human need to connect with and be surrounded by nature. I like to say that “urban biophilia” is the city dwellers’ need to connect with nature in order to maintain their sanity in all the hustle and bustle of New York City. The mere existence of greenery and open parks is based on true human need for nature.

From a 100,000 square meter golden pier that wrapped a floating dock on an Italian lake, to the monumental structures built for Burning Man in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, 2016 saw a number of large scale installations completed around the globe.

Michael Anastassiades has moved away from his typically colorless palette to create a series of pale green looping lamps. The Bespoke Loop collection launched at Design Miami, marking the first time that the London designer has worked with color.

The credenza, also known as a sideboard or buffet, was once used primarily for serving food. Today, it has become a multifunctional storage piece uniquely suited to the contemporary living room — particularly in the age of the enormous flat-screen television.

Sleepy Palm Beach and neighboring West Palm Beach have awakened to a wave of new residential development.

Nestled in the heart of SoHo, XOCO 325 is a luxury condominium that sits on the site of a former chocolate factory. The ground-up new development has been designed, developed and constructed by DDG and elegantly references SoHo’s celebrated cast-iron loft buildings, while forging a balance between classic and contemporary design.

A night out can influence a day’s work. Such was the case for DDG’s designer Michael Zaragoza. When he went to see a production by Apotheosis Opera, a fledgling New York company that aims to expand the medium’s reach, he thoroughly enjoyed the singing but found the sets inferior.

More than 60 years after I first visited, the museum’s sights are just as breathtaking and the questions it sparks are just as abundant. But in the age of the smartphone, they can now be addressed and the impact of its exhibits enhanced with a new museum app.

The original M. Crow is a general store in the tiny town of Lostine (estimated population: 209) in northeastern Oregon; it is down the road from Mr. Hays’s hometown, Joseph, Ore., at the base of the Wallowa Mountains. 

On view at XOCO 325 through November 5th, the ‘Theory of the Five Element’ is simply an observation of natural, creative changes; and it is the natural world confirming that all forces and energies in nature can be in constant smooth and harmonious transition from one phase to another.

Temporary spaces are arriving all around the world. Many studios and galleries experiment by making the move to pack up and travel across seas or outside to accomplish a new design territory via a pop-up. 

Unlike many other developers, who seem to be in it only for the money, Craig Hamburg and DDG, the firm he works with, are genuinely interested in promoting the greater good, rather than packing the city with overpriced fake “lofts” featuring tiny footprints and cheap facades.

Ten years after creating her iconic Branching Bubble light fixture—an illuminated network of metal tubes and handblown glass spheres—Brooklyn-based industrial designer Lindsey Adelman wants to get her hands dirty again. Case in point? The Ambrosia collection.

It’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. This guide is a sampling of cultural highlights taking place in New York this weekend and over the week ahead. And there’s much more where these came from.

Historical allusion and handmade materials aren’t exactly distinct or rare processes in many design practices. And yet, Dimore Studio seems to have the reputation of “doing something different.”

The fun-loving design duo behind Apparatus feel the rhythm—and hit their stride—at a new Manhattan headquarters that has the whole town buzzing.

More and more developers are scouring the Earth to source materials from the most unconventional places, both remote and local, in an attempt to bring the rarest of rare finishes to their projects.

Eine says of his work; ”Havana was everything I expected and a lot more…the city is alive with color and energy, and there are some insanely talented artists showcasing their art publicly. It’s amazing to bring a little of that to everyone back in London and donate money to a charity that I care about.”

In hindsight, it feels almost like fate that Nick and Rachel Cope would end up in the sprawling, historic Red Hook loft they now call home.

In the Superman comic book, Clark Kent lived in apartment 5H at The Standish Arms Hotel in Metropolis, where his famous suit was stolen by the Rope Burglar. In reality, the hotel that apparently inspired Kent’s pad in the comic was actually located in the posh Brooklyn Heights neighborhood.

The Boba Guys aren’t the first to try to make tea the next big thing. But they may have a real shot at it. Through hip branding, quality ingredients, judicious real estate choices and Instagrammable off-the-menu drinks, the Boba Guys — Bin Chen, 33, and Andrew Chau, 34 — have created a cult following.

This 31-unit condo conversion — at 171 Columbia Heights in tony Brooklyn Heights — hit the market this week. DDG and Westbrook Properties are the names behind this project, where $1.29 million is the barrier to entry.

Constructed with environmentally friendly materials, XOCO 325 is the latest residential project by DDG, born in a former chocolate factory in the heart of SoHo, with sustainable elements and a model residence with furniture by BDDW.

The French street artist scales 100 Franklin to install a vast mural from his ‘Unframed, Ellis Island’ series.

In an ode to its roots as a Tootsie Roll factory, DDG named its condo conversion in SoHo after the Catalan word for chocolate. Sweeter than the name is the building’s facade, where vertical gardens creep up a 10-story cast aluminum frame, set in front of a glass curtain.

La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is a vibrant masterpiece in three acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. Scenic design is by Mike Zaragoza with support from the DDG Foundation.

Exterior work has wrapped up at DDG’s XOCO 325, the nine-story, 21-unit residential condo
and retail development at 325 West Broadway. The project is built on the site of a former
chocolate factory, hence the name XOCO, the Catalan word for chocolate.

Eagle-eyed New Yorkers would have noticed a street corner in Tribeca that has been the
subject of changing artwork. Starting at the end of 2015, a wall of DDG’s 100 Franklin
has served as a platform for the Parisian artist JR, who first plastered a 95-foot ballerina
on it.

“I believe that, as much as our dining culture has evolved and as people want better food, they don’t always want it in a white-tablecloth environment.” –Eric Lilavois

And just like that, DDG’s Tribeca condo designed to look like a pile of rocks reveals itself. And, surprise!, it looks like a pile of rocks. Renderings for the exterior of 12 Warren were first unveiled in February 2015, alongside a bona fide inspiration board of images of neatly stacked bluestone.

New York Design Week may come hot on the heels each year of the all-consuming behemoth that is the Milan furniture fair, but to pay it any less attention would be a mistake.

Whether you think of it as locavore design or simply another byproduct of the tech revolution, the “maker” movement is fueling a resurgence in American design.

The developer of a new 521-foot-tall luxury condo tower on East 88th Street unveiled renderings of what will be one of the neighborhood’s tallest buildings.

Sarah Bedford is a New York artist whose work includes paintings, sculptures and ceramics. Born and raised in Roundup Montana, she received a BFA from the Cooper Union and attended the Skowhegan Residency Program. She lives and works in Brooklyn New York.

Pity poor Warren Street, a six-block stretch in southern Tribeca that even residents concede has been at best nondescript for decades.

Rachel and Nick Cope of Calico are making something truly unique in the world of wallpaper. Eschewing traditional repeat-pattern printing, the couple, who launched their business in 2013, create large-scale designs and textures that blend artisanal, sometimes ancient methods with various modes of modern design. Everything is bespoke and nothing is sold by the roll.

The microkitchen, like those at DDG’s 400 Grove, are stocked with expensive blenders, elaborate coffee makers and professional-quality knives, which suit digital workers who eat free at work or take their meals in homey but globally influenced restaurants in their apartment buildings.

Over the summer, DDG broke ground on a 32-story tower at 180 East 88th Street, which will one day be the tallest building on the Upper East Side, standing 521 feet to its pinnacle. Now, YIMBY has the first look at what the view from the upper reaches of the tower will entail.

JR and dance: a new romance. After the play and the film, a large poster on DDG’s 100 Franklin in New York still celebrates this passion.

JR’s collaboration with Osgemeos done this week in SoHo.

For Wallpaper* Magazine’s annual celebration of craftsmanship they’ve gathered the world’s finest creative minds and manufacturing talents to create a veritable feast of design excellence.

The 75-seat restaurant, named Little Gem, is taking the corner space at Grove and Gough, in the base of DDG’s freshly built luxury condo building, 400 Grove Street.

“I was really interested in the 8 Octavia site because of its prominence as a kind of entry point to the city from the freeway and I saw it as an opportunity to create a sort of arrival moment in San Francisco, in a way, announcing the contemporary San Francisco.” – Stanley Saitowitz

41 Bond and 345meatpacking received Awards of Honor as part of the 2015 SARA | NY Awards. Organized by the Society of American Registered Architects – New York Council, the Design Awards invites all design-related practitioners and students to send their best built and unbuilt works to the awards category of their choice.

From Esther Schipper’s booth, doling out squeeze-it-yourself orange juice, to Helly Nahmad’s hidden back room where one can plop down for a Rothko-gazing reprieve, collectors and art lovers alike are once again spoiled at Art Basel this year.

“I’ve been making stuff since I was a child and haven’t stopped. My first true career was as a painter / sculptor…then a carpenter / builder, and furniture as a career kinda found me.” -Tyler Hayes

A new version of Yayoi Kusama’s legendary installation “The Obliteration Room” has taken over David Zwirner Gallery, New York, as part of her “Give Me Love” exhibition that is on view in two spaces, at 519 and 525 West 19th Street.

The photographer Matthias Schaller has spent the past eight years documenting paint palettes belonging to some of art history’s greatest masters — van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Twombly and Bacon, to name a few.

“Landscape can help situate a building in its context,” said Future Green’s David Seiter on DDG’s 345meatpacking. “People are drawn to the wildness and style of the Highline.”