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Calling all High School students! Last chance to view the end of year exhibitions from NYC’s top design schools. Sign up through the link in bio.

Afternoon Light Design Fair The New York fair for contemporary furniture, objects, and materials. Old guard meets new visionaries. VIP Preview: May 16 May 17–19, 2026 161 Water Street (enter at Water & John) #AfternoonLightDesignFair #ALDF2026 #NYCxDesign #NYDesignWeek #AfternoonLight

The Design Pavilion by @lexususa is officially open. Step inside to experience Sketch to Street—where ideas take shape through live art, design panels, and interactive installations. All week, programming includes expert panel conversations around the creative process, live performances, food and beverage, and more. #LexusAtNYCxDESIGN #SketchToStreet Open daily, May 14-19. Learn more through the link in bio.

💡 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

NYCxDESIGN Festival kickoff press conference Time Square, celebrated by @nasdaq ! #DesignConnectsUs #NYCxDESIGN

NYCxDESIGN Exhibition: SHINE We're excited to partner with NYC X Design for SHINE, an installation surveying the exciting state of lighting today. Sponsored by Sponsored by Kikkerland Design, it's curated and designed by Harry Allen, and hosted by The Seaport, 20 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038. Lighting is the fastest evolving segment in design, with new technologies and manufacturing techniques permitting designers to create and experiment like never before. From 11am-9pm, 14-20 May 2026 visitors can view the luminous works of 70 different designers / studios, including conceptual works, prototypes and lights now in / entering production, for free.. Link in bio

The Fluxx Guide to NYCxDESIGN 2026: Everything from sculptural bronze to floating wallpaper, Italian stone to immersive textile installations. Here's where we're sending you: Gallery Features... ✦ Inca City by Sébastien Léon at Ralph Pucci — bold, architectural, unmissable, Chelsea ✦ Original BTC x Buchanan Studio — British lighting meets layered interiors, SoHo ✦ Materials of Joy, Gallery FUMI — Max Lamb, Rowan Mersh & 15+ artists at Galerie56, Tribeca ✦ Calico Wallpaper — Suchi Reddy's Luminous collection and the neuroaesthetics of surface, Tribeca ✦ In My Dreams All the Furniture Is Dancing — art, design and the surreal, TriBeCa ✦ Osanna Visconti di Modrone at Maison Gerard — sculptural bronze and collectible form, Greenwich Village ✦ Salvatori — natural stone as sculptural presence, SoHo ✦ Féau Boiseries — seven period rooms and the art of decorative wood paneling, Upper East Side ✦ Gessi — architectural bathroom design and wellness interiors, Lafayette St ✦ Frette — textile refinement and quiet luxury, Upper Madison Avenue And... ✦ Flos — lighting as spatial emotion, Madison Avenue ✦ Porada — Italian craftsmanship and the spirit of Casa Porada, NoMad ✦ Rooms of Wonder by Droulers Architecture — Invisible Collection meets French ensemblier tradition, Upper East Side ✦ Métaphores x ATRA: Cosmo Nova — textiles, light and imagined worlds, Greenwich Village #nycxdesign #design #collectibledesign

For the NYCxDESIGN Festival, the Italian Showrooms open their doors to the trade professionals, a great opportunity to discover their latest collections. @itatradeagency #italiandesign #madeinitaly #italiantradeagency #nycxdesign

Fisher & Paykel presents, Creating Legacy An intimate and engaging panel exploring the idea of legacy—an enduring theme that resonates deeply across creative practice and the human experience. May 15 | 3–5pm Fisher & Paykel New York Experience Center For industry only. To request an invitation, please email [email protected] with subject line, “Fisher & Paykel Tour Attendance Request”.

The Lower East Side has never been polished. It was built through collision: creatives, independent businesses, galleries, studios, people testing ideas against the city itself. What defines the neighborhood is density. Proximity. Exchange. Noise. Risk. A place where culture is produced through friction, improvisation and constant reinvention. The Lower East Side Collective begins during @nycxdesign as an initiative to reconnect the creative fabric that still exists here. A coalition of spaces and individuals rooted in the neighborhood and invested in its future. As a statement that the Lower East Side remains a place where creativity is lived before it is sold. 💬 learn more about our collaborators and their shows in the comments #nycxdesign #community #artinitiative

TOMORROW! NYCxDESIGN Festival Opening Party featuring @theartistbreakfast — you don’t want to miss this! Thursday, May 14 | 6pm | Halo 28 (entrance on 28 Pine Street) Special discounts for groups of 5+ and even more for groups of 10+ Comment “party” and we will send you a link to access your tickets With heartfelt thanks to: @haloevents28 @pinchfooddesign @theartistbreakfast @lobservatoire_intl @colorkinetics @massicanwinery @fort.hamilton.distillery @mioculture @partyrentalltd Video: @mrpatrickduffy / @irkmagazine

There’s something about New York during NYCxDESIGN that feels really magical. The whole city starts buzzing with ideas. You walk into one event for a quick drink and somehow end up deep in a conversation about architecture, fashion, lighting, sustainability, or why everyone suddenly cares so much about the perfect chair. This year’s festival has so many incredible moments including the opening party at Halo at 28 Liberty, Design Pavilion taking over Times Square, the SHINE exhibition at the Seaport, the Salon Series curated by INC Architecture & Design, and the Future Now AI Summit at Cornell Tech with speakers from Google DeepMind, IBM, and MIT Media Lab. It’s one of the few weeks in New York where creativity really spills out into the streets and reminds you how much design shapes the way we live, gather, and connect. Very proud to collaborate with IRK Magazine on this feature celebrating NYCxDESIGN 2026 and the incredible people behind it all. Read the full article here: NYCxDESIGN 2026 Feature #NYCxDESIGN #IRKMagazine #DesignConnectsUs #DesignWeek #NYCDesign Architecture CreativeCommunity