Exciting Upcoming evening event at Material ConneXion in the Time & LIfe Building on May 5!

                

"THE FUTURE OF HOME"
By Hermine Mariaux,  

President/Founder HMI Digital & Print Media

Register for The FUTURE OF HOME HERE

We are offering a special program scheduled for May 5 by IFDA.  As IFDA’s NY Chapter Board VP for New Directions, I will be moderating the Evening Event held at the Headquarter Offices of and hosted by Material ConneXion located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas on the 17^th floor of the Time & Life Building.

Three expert panelists will lift  the curtain on tomorrow’s home and share their forecasts of what the future holds for our home environments - what home will look like – feel like – and how technology and product innovation will intersect, re-shape, and enrich the way we live.

Dr. Andrew Dent ,Vice President of Material ConneXion heads the company’s extensive Materials Library and Research. He is a frequent speaker across many design disciplines and has helped hundreds of clients – from Whirlpool to Adidas, BMW and Rolls Royce -to develop or improve their products through the use of innovative materials.

Matilda McQuaid is Deputy Director of Curatorial and head of the Textiles department at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She overseas one of the premier textile collections in the world. To many of us in the design trade, she is well known as one of the most foresighted oracles of the Next BIG Thing in textiles and beyond.

Leslie Clagett is the Products Editor at The Architects Newspaper. Well versed in residential construction, she has a special affinity for Kitchen & Bath, both the design elements which comprise them and the engineering behind them. Her observations are well documented in her blog kbculture.com. Her presentation will explore the interplay between technology, materials and design trends in residential architecture with a focus how they impact home interiors.

A special bonus for IFDA members and their guests on the night of the event will be access to the usually CM Members Only on-site Library of

Material ConneXion with its display inventory of 7500 innovative materials.

Registration for this NOT TO BE MISSED event is essential and urgent. Space is very limited and tickets must be reserved – none will be available at the door. We look forward to having you.

the official address for MaterialConneXion is 1271 Sixth Ave.

The TIME & LIFE Bldg.  However, the Special Entrance everyone is supposed to use is:

121 West 50th Street between Sixth & Seventh Aves. second entrance from Sixth Ave. The event will be held on the 17th floor.

Please note:  Space is limited and no tickets will be available at the door, so please order tickets today!

IFDA NY members shows up to remember Maya Romanoff at Interior Design magazine

Maya Romanoff and his team

photograph courtesy Interior Design magazine

A Special Evening 

to Honor and Remember Maya Romanoff!
by Tamara Matthews-Stephenson

check out this beautiful video by Interior Design magazine

recapping the evening where over 100 folks turned up

to honor this design icon!

Joyce & Maya Romanoff~photo courtesy Wikipedia

Last tuesday, I was invited to join the design industry who came out to celebrate the incredible life and work of Maya Romanoff.  It was an evening to remember and acknowledge the great man and body of work of this talent!  Held at Interior Design magazine headquarters, and hosted by the magazine's Editor in Chief, Cindy Allen, many notable design industry professionals attended to join Maya's wife Joyce Romanoff to pay tribute to his life, as well as remember his contributions while noting his introducing handcrafted, functional art to the marketplace.  Maya founded his surfacing material company in 1969 when inspired by the tie dye t-shirts he saw at Woodstock, New York during that era.  He later became known  for his signature wall coverings that graced homes and buildings around the world. 

A little bit of history about Maya:

While a Berkeley student, May sold tie-dyed shirts from the back of a VW van at Woodstock. He became passionate about material dyeing, and learned about the history and process, including  an intensive study of the craft in Japan.  He then returned to his native Chicago, and began to hand-dye leather garments, theatre curtains, and large-scale installation art before focusing on wallcoverings. As his small company grew, his wife, Joyce, joined him in instilling in every team member a deep respect for material balanced with a lawless sense of play. A passion for purity of form and exquisiteness of craft echoes from every level of Maya Romanoff, the company and the design studio. Some of Romanoff's projects include -- New York's Museum of Contemporary Arts' 1972 Fabric Vibrations; Bess' Sunrise, the draping of the Chicago Sun-Times building in 120 ft long ribbons of vibrant color; the desgn of shimmering main stage for The Harris Theatre in Chicago's Millennium Park and more. Some of his more high profile wallcoverings installations includes -- Nobu restaurants all over the world, The Green Room at the Kodak theatre for the Academy Awards, Tiffany & Co, the Playboy Club in LA, Boucheron stores, Phantom of the Opera Theater in LA, projects for Walt Disney, the palace of the Crown Prince of Dubai, Harrods, and more. He has received numerous awards including the ICON of Industry Scholarship Award, a lifetime achievement in 2006 by NEWH, House & Garden's Designers' Best and many more.  

~information above included 

from Maya Romanoff team and Wikipedia~