Next month, Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung, co-founders of Brooklyn-based design studio In Common With, plan to open Quarters, set in a 19th-century Tribeca loft. The 8,000 square feet of space is laid out like a fully equipped home. Guests enter through the library and are free to explore the great room, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, bar and lounge. Everything inside is available for purchase, including furniture, lighting, art, and even the pantry. Ozemba and Hung collaborated with some creative friends to create objects and decorations that filled the space. They designed the tiles throughout with New York City-based artist Shane Gavier, and a fresco depicting an eel with earrings by painter Claudio Bonuria adorns part of the bar and lounge. Night service will begin in the summer. The furniture on display is a mix of restored vintage pieces and new designs by Ozemba and Hun, some of which can be customized with images drawn by various tattoo artists. “You'll be able to sit and play with people,” says Ozemba, who says the space could foster conversation and inspire new projects. “Retail shouldn't be so serious. Take off your shoes and have a glass of wine.” The Quarters opens on May 13th. shopquarters.com.
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Spiral sculpture made from recycled CDs
Throughout her career, New York-based artist Tara Donovan has explored the transformative potential of recycled materials and questioned whether they can transcend their origins. In a new exhibit titled “Strategems” at Pace Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, Donovan will present 11 of her towering new works, most of which are comprised entirely of her CDs scavenged from her eBay will be exhibited. “We live in a time where we feel increasingly defined by cycles of ingenuity and obsolescence,” Donovan says. “The archive of human experience has moved from paper to the cloud in my lifetime. The CD is perhaps the last vestige of understanding data as an object.” The disks were stacked on top of each other and glued together, resulting in a structure up to 9 feet tall. They are meant to allude to the skyscraper's architecture, an echo visible from her seventh-floor window where the show is held. On sunny days, Donovan's Tower can have a prismatic effect, casting a rainbow of light onto the floor. On May 4, during New York's Frieze Week, Donovan's friend and choreographer Kim Brandt will perform in the exhibition with six dancers. “Strategems” will be shown from May 3rd to June 15th. pacegallery.com.
Greenpoint, in the northernmost tip of Brooklyn, has long been a hub for New York City's bakeries. From decades-long Polish standby Peter Pan, immortalized as Zendaya's MJ's part-time workplace in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), and from Pan since 1993, There's also another classic Polish bakery, Sirena Bakery, which sells everything. From babka to tiramisu to holiday cookies. Radio Bakery, led by pastry chef Kelly Menshin, offers a menu focused on what she calls the “flavours of memory” of New York, such as bacon, egg and cheese focaccia. Morning buns with green onion sesame twist and Earl Gray. Taku Sando opened on Greenpoint Avenue in November, making decadent Japanese sandwiches served on homemade bread and selling the bread as well. Pan Pan Vino Vino is located in a cinder-red building on Norman Avenue. Pan Pan Vino Vino is a bakery and wine bar from the owners of Noora, an Indian restaurant a few blocks away. Designer and co-owner Nico Arze has decorated the pastry case with pictures of volcanoes, paying homage to his native Chile. Inside are chunks of caraway rye bread, which pastry chef Sam Short says reminds him of his Polish grandmother making liverwurst sandwiches on rye bread. It's alongside a guava cream cheese danish made with croissant fillets. And as of February, since Paloma Coffee Roastery opened a bakery outpost on Nassau Avenue, the sea of coffee cups and bags filled with pastries in McGorrick Park has become Paloma Coffee's signature The colors are white and red. Its single-origin beans are now complemented by innovative pastries (artichoke, olive, potato bear claw, etc.).
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Vases inspired by Alice Waters' home kitchen
When Fanny Singer, author and founder of the design brand Permanent Collection, was looking for a muse for her next homewares collection, she turned to her mother, Alice Waters, a pioneering California chef and seasonal slow food champion. I turned my attention. The two had already collaborated to release Waters' Eggspoon. This is a hand-forged iron utensil for frying eggs over a hot flame. The latest in their collaboration, which coincides with Waters' 80th birthday this month, is an oversized statement vase with wide, wide handles. The piece was inspired by an antique Italian cremation urn that often sits in a corner of Waters' Berkeley, Calif., kitchen, surrounded by cluttered branches. “I always associate her with her flowers. She creates these beautiful pieces with things she cuts from her garden and her friends' cherry and plum trees,” says Singer. . To recreate Waters' beloved item, the couple commissioned local potter Niki Shelley to paint the vessel with a deep, earthy green glaze. Waters says that's the aspect she loves most about amphora. “For me, it's the color of nature and brings the greenery of the garden into the kitchen.” 740 dollars, permanentcollection.com.
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Artist photo arrangement on display in New York's Chinatown
Mexican-born, Vancouver-based artist Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez is preparing to open his first New York solo exhibition, Survey, on April 26 at David Peter Francis, a Chinatown gallery that opened in March. proceeding. The show juxtaposes Rodriguez's discovered photographs with his own iPhone snapshots, creating various compositions on grids, arcs, and zigzag lines resembling bar graphs, and depicting scientific or taxonomic connections between the images. Featuring a series of new giclée prints of his that evoke a sense of sexuality. , is actually irrelevant. The body of work grew out of frustrations Rodriguez experienced while living and teaching in Chicago. While working on a video piece that required extensive archival research, the artist realized that some institutions' regulations regarding the use of photography stifled creativity. As he says, “images had to be tied to the specific story the archive was trying to protect, and there was no space for art in that.” Rodriguez still draws on established archives. But more regularly I get images from encyclopedias, eBay, and sometimes from the sidewalk. (“It’s surprisingly good what you find on the street,” he says.) In “Sleeping Boys I” (2024), Rodriguez stands opposite a photograph of a slumberer, fast asleep in the sun. Images of people are placed there. “Unmade Beds” (2024), on the other hand, shows multiple views of rumpled sheets and lumpy pillows (one image is actually a photo of a photo). “Survey” will be on display from April 26th to June 1st. davidpeterfrancis.com.
When Simone Bodmer-Turner moved from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to a farmhouse in rural Massachusetts last spring, the 34-year-old potter suddenly found herself in a professional limbo. Stepping away from her kiln for the first time in her career, she “had no idea how to work,” she recalls. Turning to her variety of new materials, she gradually began imagining a collection of purposeful pieces that seemed better suited to a traditional New England setting. She has moved away from the abstract, bulbous shapes she once routinely formed in her Brooklyn studio, and “now function comes first and sculpture comes second,” she says. Her latest works include patinated bronze lamps that reproduce the texture of the original hand-molded clay models from which they were cast. Meanwhile, a simple wooden side table, similar to one she found at a local Shaker museum, is offset by a quirky, surrealist feel. -Inspired feet and Urushi The lacquer finish is courtesy of artist Yuko Gunji, Bodmer Turner's former neighbor and frequent collaborator. These works will be displayed in the upcoming exhibition “A Year Without a Kiln” at the Emma Scully Gallery on New York's Upper East Side. Larger editions of the furniture, along with several decorative items, from the fireplace andilon to the silk standing screen devised to hide the air conditioner, are now available for purchase in the hope that they will become heirlooms. There is. The artist moved into a new home with the intention of living there forever, but she says it “really gave her a desire to be timeless.” “The Year Without a Kiln” will be on display from May 2nd to June 22nd. emmascullygallery.com.
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