For NY Design Week, Brooklyn-based Marx Et Al debuts their very first lighting and furniture collection at
@wanteddesign .
The studio is led by three partners. Aaron Marx who oversees design, Christopher Howard, and Leah Smit.
Drawing on historical motifs such as drapery, lotuses, and Art Deco geometry, the collection translates familiar forms into a precise, contemporary material language. Each piece is named for artists from Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. The shorthand for Marx Et Al’s aesthetic is “stripped-down romance.”
Aaron is deeply interested in the historicizing designers of the early twentieth century: Ruhlmann, Rateau, Dunand, Cheuret, Wilhelm Kåge, Edgar Brandt, and their peers. They all made work that was new and exciting but peppered with familiar and evocative motifs. Aaron’s goal is similar: to recall history without drifting into pastiche, and to make pieces that stir a faint connection to the past while feeling decisively modern.
May 17-19
WANTED at ICFF
Javits Center
Booth #W647
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