Colony showcases Balance Unbalanced homeware for NYCxDesign
New York design collective Colony has put on an exhibition of tapestries and home products at its space in Tribeca, which was painted dark blue for the occasion, during the NYCxDesign festival.
The Balance Unbalanced installation features a range of furniture, textiles, lighting and objects made by 17 American designers.
All of the pieces take design cues from the concept of balance, or lack thereof, with examples including a topsy-turvy upholstered chair and textiles with swooped threads.
"For this year's exhibit we wanted to explore not just the positive, light, or balanced side of design, but also the struggle to find balance, both in our work and in our personal lives," said Jean Lin, who founded Colony in 2014 as a community of independent designers in New York City.
On display are works from designers such as Allied Maker, Fort Standard, Hiroko Takeda, Studio Paolo Ferrari and Vonnegut/Kraft.
"The show theme manifests itself as an illustrative process of designers and makers finding balance in form, colour, scale and material," said a statement from Colony.
The items represent each designer's meditation on the meaning of balance, from both a philosophical and an aesthetic perspective.
"This year's theme, the exhibit design and the work on show are complex, nuanced and a bit somber," Lin told Dezeen.
Highlights from the exhibition are Takeda's series of tapestries with colourful swooped designs of cotton and bamboo and Studio Paolo Fer...
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