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The city-wide showcase runs through May 20, with installations from Hermès, Vitra, and Bang & Olufsen anchoring the week's program.
May 14. NYCxDesign opened overnight with installations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. The week runs through May 20 with over 200 events registered across the city's five boroughs.
Hermès opened a temporary gallery at 56 Walker Street showing leather furniture prototypes from its Paris atelier. Vitra installed a full-scale domestic floor plan in a converted Tribeca warehouse, each room staged with archive pieces from 1990 to present. Bang & Olufsen occupied a Williamsburg loft with a single-room listening session format, 12 chairs facing a prototype speaker, appointments only.
Uptown galleries leaned into retrospective formats. The Museum of Arts and Design opened a 40-year survey of Italian lighting design, Flos and Artemide pieces shown side by side for the first time. Todd Merrill Studio in Chelsea showed Japanese modernist furniture, most pieces dated 1960s, none for sale. The positioning read more archival than commercial.
Downtown skewed experimental. The Salon Art + Design fair at the Park Avenue Armory opened with 50+ dealers, half showing contemporary work priced under $10,000. A collective of six Brooklyn designers installed a modular kitchen system in a Bushwick garage, visitors invited to reconfigure the layout. The format felt more open-studio than trade show.
The week splits cleanly: uptown anchors treat design as archive material, downtown treats it as live practice. Both approaches worked in their respective registers. The city absorbed the density without strain. By Thursday the calendar will clarify which installations held attention past the opening-night circuit.
Schedule and venue list available at nycxdesign.com.
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