01/11/2017
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.
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01/10/2017
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.
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01/05/2017
New York designer Lindsey Adelman has created a collection of lamps that appear to be made from melting glass.
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01/03/2017
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.
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12/21/2016
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.
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12/19/2016
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.
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12/19/2016
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.
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12/19/2016
Inside the apartment of David Alhadeff, whose gallery-cum-shop the Future Perfect has nurtured some of this country’s greatest designers.
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12/19/2016
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.
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12/09/2016
Sleepy Palm Beach and neighboring West Palm Beach have awakened to a wave of new residential development.
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12/09/2016
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.
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12/02/2016
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.
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11/29/2016
Michael Anastassiade’s uncompromising aesthetic — a blend of clever functionality and spare organic beauty — has earned the 49-year-old a loyal following. His Calder-inspired mobiles and spheres are sold in such design meccas as the Future Perfect and Ralph Pucci, and he has collaborated with FLOS and the Parisian fashion boutique Colette.
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11/29/2016
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.
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11/29/2016
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.
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10/28/2016
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.
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10/28/2016
Urban Land magazine has announced the winners of its 40 Under 40 competition, which recognizes the best and brightest young land use professionals from around the globe. DDG Vice President Craig Hamburg has been selected for this prestigious award.
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10/28/2016
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.
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10/24/2016
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.
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10/24/2016
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.
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10/24/2016
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.
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10/18/2016
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This fall, Storefront launches Letters to the Developer where a group of architects and critics have each been asked to write a letter to a New York City-based developer who should be recognized for making a positive contribution to public life. One of the letters is from writer, Fred A. Bernstein to DDG.
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10/13/2016
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.”
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10/13/2016
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.
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10/09/2016
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.
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10/03/2016
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.”
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09/29/2016
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.
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09/28/2016
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.
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09/26/2016
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.
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09/22/2016
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.
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09/12/2016
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.
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08/11/2016
The French street artist scales 100 Franklin to install a vast mural from his ‘Unframed, Ellis Island’ series.
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08/08/2016
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.
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07/22/2016
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.
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07/20/2016
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.
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07/19/2016
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.
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07/18/2016
“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
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07/06/2016
NPR chats with illustrator Shawn Martinbrough in his studio about “Thief of Thieves,” art, and comics.
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06/07/2016
DDG, which in 2012 wrapped its Meatpacking District condo at 345meatpacking in an enormous print of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s “Yellow Trees,” is now “working with artists on most of our projects,” says Chairman and CEO Joe McMillan, who is also commissioning photographs of a quarry by Jacqueline Hassink for 12 Warren, as well as a sculpture by Jan Hooss and a painting by museum diorama artist Sean Murtha for 180 East 88th.
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06/04/2016
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.
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06/03/2016
Accessories have taken to the street — and not just in the sense of casual styles or sporty motifs. This season, handbags and shoes are canvases, as designers “paint” them with images that coincidentally recall Miami’s fabled Wynwood Walls. Here, bags are pieces of urban art in their own right, paired with kicks radiating a cool urban vibe.
Photographs by Will Anderson
Styled by Roxanne Robinson
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06/01/2016
Last September, Hoodline broke the news that tea connoisseur Boba Guys would be opening up a Hayes Valley location. Now, they’ve said that their doors will finally open on the ground floor of DDG’s 8 Octavia in mid-June.
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05/27/2016
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.
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05/07/2016
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.
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03/10/2016
180 East 88th evokes a refined, pre-war aesthetic characteristic of traditional Upper East Side buildings with picture rails, custom wainscoting, and baseboard reveals featured in primary living areas. Custom kitchens designed by Molteni&C Dada with DDG include honed Italian Statuario marble slab countertops, integrated Gaggenau appliance package and natural brass details.
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02/15/2016
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.
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02/01/2016
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.
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12/25/2015
Pity poor Warren Street, a six-block stretch in southern Tribeca that even residents concede has been at best nondescript for decades.
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12/23/2015
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.
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12/08/2015
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.
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09/24/2015
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.
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09/16/2015
100 Franklin’s “28 Millimètres Portrait d’une génération” featured on David Beckham’s Instagram.
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08/27/2015
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.
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08/21/2015
The design of DDG’s new building at 12 Warren is meant to evoke the natural stacking of bluestone, and they are really taking this rock-spiration all the way. The teaser site is now live and the only images on the site so far are of a bluestone quarry.
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08/11/2015
JR’s collaboration with Osgemeos done this week in SoHo.
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07/27/2015
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.
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07/10/2015
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.
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07/06/2015
“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
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07/01/2015
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.
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06/25/2015
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.
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06/18/2015
“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
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06/09/2015
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.
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06/04/2015
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.
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05/28/2015
“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.”
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