Elise McMahon

💡 As part of the @nycxdesign festival, the exhibition SHINE features original light objects by 70 designers. “SHINE is not a show about New York City itself, but a reflection on the culture and people who inhabit it,” says curator Harry Allen. Meet some of the designers: 🔆 @esquestudio (Andi Kovel) experiments with a singular material concept and magnifies its details, centering her practice on isolated exploration. 🔆 @ehandojodesign (Elmer Handojo) creates thoughtful products and experiences that bridge storytelling, technology and object-making. 🔆 @bechara_maalouf_ (Bechara Maalouf) uses new and found materials to explore how memory changes over time. 🔆 @liyangzhang_studio (Liyang Zhang) explores the elemental aspects of architecture — light, material and form — on an intimate, tactile scale. 🔆 @loloostia (Lolo Ostia) brings together art, science and environmental awareness through material storytelling, exploring collaboration with living systems, from microorganisms to algae. 🔆 @leebroom (Lee Broom) creates sculptural pieces that explore the emotional and physical possibilities of light, merging material, craft and innovation into atmospheric, expressive forms. 🔆 @karim_rashid_official (Karim Rashid) blends technology and emotion through his philosophy of sensual minimalism, shaping contemporary life with over 4,000 designs across 47 countries. 🔆 @likemindedobjects (Elise McMahon) works in response to waste streams and healthier materials. creating contemporary, playful takes on creative reuse and material experimentation. 🔆 @jimmy.rojas.design (Jimmy Rojas) creates poetic products, spaces and brand narratives that interrupt the numbness of modern life and invite people to reconnect with their surroundings, routines and themselves. 🔆 @sabrina_merayo_nuniez (Sabrina Merayo Nuniez) creates sculptural ecosystems where matter grows, transforms and exists, combining living systems with responsive technologies. 🔆 @lot_ek (LOT-EK) is a collective that reimagines dismissed industrial objects as architecture and design, using upcycling as their material practice and “beauty in the ordinary” as their design principle. 📅May 14-20 at @theseaportnyc

Thank you so much to everyone who participated, staffed & came out for Basilica Farm & Flea Spring Market last weekend ! It was so special to spend Mother’s Day Weekend celebrating Mother Earth and local small businesses with our community! Next Up: Summer Market July 4th & 5th! Applications to vend are up for one more day so get in your apps before midnight Friday the 15th:) & Check out these lovely pictures by @luca.pearl.khosrova @catskill.photo.studio 📸 we’ve been working with Luca for years to capture BFF Markets, we highly recommend reaching out for your photography needs ! BFF is presented in partnership with @likemindedobjects

Basilica!! What a whimsical first day 🫧 Thank you to everyone who came out to shop and snack and stroll on this drizzly day, I had so much fun chatting with you all! If you missed us yesterday come say hi today from 10am-5pm 🌿 Happy Mother’s Day to all you beautiful mamas and see you later! @likemindedobjects @basilicahudson #basilicafarmandflea #hudsonvalley #botanicalbeauty #haircare #tallowskincare

Balance from the roots to the tips 🧘 Find your Equilibrium or gift some to your Mama this weekend at Basilica Farm and Flea 🌿 📍110 Front Street, Hudson NY 🕐 Saturday May 9th - Sunday May 10th 10am - 5pm

Join us tomorrow and Sunday for a Mother’s Day Weekend full of tasty meals, one of a kind ethical and beautiful shopping options and a range of workshops and experiences. SHOPPING LOCAL @ BFF : Alongside just simply enjoying the beautiful products and tasty foods made by people here, it feels meaningful to us to offer a large gathering and marketplace supporting the local economy of the Hudson Valley. According to the American Independent Business Alliance, *when we spend our dollars at a locally owned and independent business instead of a chain store or online giant, our dollars recirculate through your local economy 2-4 times more than money spent at a non-local company.* So for every $100 dollars spent with a local small biz, $53 dollars will stay within the community, whereas, if you spend that same $100 at a chain store, only $13 stays within the local community. & as for shopping corporate online, none of that money circulates locally. Let’s keep our dollars grounded in ethical environmental and labor practices by shopping as local as possible this Mother’s Day Weekend & all year round! Spring Market info & tix can be found via our link in bio , see you tomorrow! Organized and presented in partnership with @likemindedobjects . Event photos by @luca.pearl.khosrova @catskill.photo.studio

join us this weekend @basilicahudson (cc @likemindedobjects ). we'll be inside, so stop by and try on a pair, transplant a seedling, and take her home! don't ask what they are, salvia maybe? #gardentok #iykyk #hudsonvalley #inmygardentoday #gardeninggloves

The delicious 😋 ginger mango 🥭 is back and it will @troymarket @basilicahudson ! This weekend please find alimacuisine! #alimawestafricancuisine #upstateny #burkinabè #style #healthylifestyle

Editors picks for May 6 through May 12. Go to https://happen.events/ for more info. Link in bio

Basilica Farm & Flea Spring Market is coming right up! Mother’s Day Weekend 🌸 May 9th & 10th, 10am–5pm both days. @basilicahudson Join 100+ regional farmers, chefs, artists, artisans, collectors, and organizations gathering together for this season’s Farm & Flea. Come meet them and learn about their crafts, practices, and passions all weekend long. Thank you for the beautiful overlay graphic video @likemindedobjects 🌸 I’ve used it many times for promotion 🥰 #handwoventextiles

Returning to @basilicahudson @likemindedobjects for our third season of Farm and Flea this weekend May 9-10 at 10 AM - 5 PM! This market is really special, as it was ZAPWARE’s first launching pad in late 2024. We love being a part of it. Come visit us and lots of friend vendors! The bounty of makers, food folks, and cool HV projects make it a blast. Come try on some bug protection clothing!! The ticks are OUT

This Mother’s Day weekend, we return to where everything started for us, one year ago 🥹🇵🇭🍢 This time, last May, we threw ourselves into our very first, official pop-up as ‘sira ulō,’ and not just any event, but THE @basilicahudson ’s Farm & Flea (by @likemindedobjects ) with @enokicatskills ’ “Reflections of Home” Spring Market ‘25 — so sentimentally, returning feels extra special, crazy full-circle and we are so grateful + stoked to be invited back 🌀 A LITTLE INFO: ➡️ Saturday, May 9 & Sunday, May 10, 👋 Doors open at 10 AM - 5 PM (both days) 🏃 Lots of food but quantities are subject to selling out! 🎟️ Tickets available online & at the entrance Make sure you say HI! — and Happy Mother’s Day! — to Tita Karen @noshwoodstockny (Harrison’s mom) who’ll be runnin’ the register 🤘 And ofc, this/our food wouldn’t be without the culinary, cultural & creative influence of Tita Lita (Jess’ ‘mom) — We are so ever-grateful for both the support, strength and amazingness of these badass ladies… this weekend’s for YOU 💕 Excited to meet some new faces and see some familiar ones too, after this cold, wacky winter 🥲 Come one, come all, come hungry 👋 Jess & Harry

Elise McMahon is a designer, artist and educator living in the Hudson Valley. McMahon works under the design studio named LikeMindedObjects, creating furniture, lighting and products with a joyful contemporary aesthetic combined with a unique take on creative re-use steeped in material experimentation. McMahon received a BFA from RISD in Furniture Design and an MFA from Parsons New School in Industrial Design where she developed her research practice into global Waste Streams and healthier material practices in manufacturing. McMahon’s work has been featured in a variety of exhibitions and publications including Vogue, New York Times, Architectural digest and more. Featured here are her Paperclip Lamps, Roll Lounge Chair, Almost Nothing Lamps, and her Woven Deadstock Chair. Beyond her studio practice, Elise is an integral part of the Hudson creative community, organizing the Basilica Farm & Flea, regular Fix-It workshops where you can learn to mend your own items, and much more. Her commitment to sustainability and reuse, both in her designs and her broader life ethos, are values we cherish deeply. We particularly love how each piece of fabric in her Woven Deadstock Chair once served another purpose, and here they come together anew as a place for you to sit. Photos of furniture by @skylerrsmith