NYCxDESIGN is back May 14–20, and New York City is flirting with design everywhere you look.
Last year, I ducked into a space to escape the heat and somehow ended up in a very serious conversation about whether a chair could feel “honest.” No one knew each other. Everyone had a point of view. Someone handed me a drink mid debate. I stayed far longer than planned. That’s the thing about design week here. It pulls you in when you’re not even trying.
You don’t attend it. You fall into it.
This year’s theme, Design Connects Us, lands because you actually feel it. In the middle of Times Square at the Design Pavilion, in a quiet corner downtown at SHINE in the Seaport where 70 designers are shaping light into something emotional, almost cinematic.
Then there are the conversations that linger. The Salon Series with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (
@rollsroycecars ), INC Architecture & Design (
@inc.nyc ), and TenBerke (
@tenberke_architects ), intimate, sharp, just insider enough. And the Future Now AI Summit at Cornell Tech (
@cornell_tech ), with voices from Google DeepMind (
@googledeepmind ), IBM (
@ibm ),and MIT Media Lab (
@mitmedialab ) quietly reshaping what creativity even means.
The mix is what makes it work. B&B Italia (
@bebitalia ), Poltrona Frau (
@poltronafrauofficial ), Porada Furniture (
@poradafurniture ) #and cultural forces like Villa Albertine all showing up across the city, at the same time, in completely different ways.
And somewhere between a crowded sidewalk, a perfectly lit installation, and a conversation you didn’t plan to have, it clicks.
Design isn’t something you look at here.
It’s something you walk into… and stay for. Sometimes by accident. Sometimes entirely on purpose.
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