A world of design inspiration awaits at the 14th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show, North America’s premier design show for the luxury market, on March 19-22, 2015. Show exhibits the latest furniture, accessories, lighting, art, and kitchen, bath, and building products for all your design projects. Visitors can also attend seminars offered by leading talent from the world of design. Every design lover would be happy to see products from more than 400 brands. We have chosen 15 fabulous furniture and lighting design brands definitely worth seeing.
Aaron Scott Design creates one-of-a-kind as well as commissioned works of functional design including furniture, lighting, and architectural installations. Rooted in art and disciplined by engineering, works by Aaron Scott Design are hand-crafted with mathematical rigor, operating in the interstices of art and design. His furniture explores the relationship between objects and perception, and is informed by his work in conceptual art and filmmaking. He regards his design works as explorations in spatial and temporal concepts.
For more than thirty years, sculptor Barry Entner has been expanding the boundaries of glass, art and light in the pursuit of his unique vision. His innovative design process result in the elegant and vital movements inherent in his dynamic forms and vibrant works of art.
Boca do Lobo is designed to evoke emotion in its admirers. The sensational collections of furniture pass on uniqueness and exclusivity. They never cease to surprise, and surely never go unnoticed. Each piece is handcrafted in Portugal with the finest materials by a team of talented artisans who have a passion to deliver only the highest quality furnishings.
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BRABBU is a design brand that reflects an intense way of living, bringing fierceness, strenght and power into an urban lifestyle. We design and produce a diverse range of furniture, casegoods, upholstery, lighting, rugs, art and accessories that tells stories from the nature and the world.
DELIGHTFULL’s unique collection, Heritage, is full of a broad selection of high quality lighting designs, versatile enough for many types of atmospheres and spaces. Heritage assorted 30’s, 40’s and 50’s Soul and Jazz inspired lamps takes on the legacy of – WISDOM – of men who craft with their own hands.
Celebrating 40 years in 2014, Hubbardton Forge is one of the most respected brands in the lighting industry for trend-setting designs, uncompromising quality, unsurpassed customer service, and a genuine commitment to sustainable manufacturing.
John Dodd has been self-employed creating Designer Made Furniture for more than thirty five years. Never building from static plans, his furniture begins with a concept doodle, then develops into a rendering which often evolves into a scaled model for refinements in proportion and form.
KOKET is devotion to the seduction of the exquisite and to the provocation of love. Highly influenced by the decorative arts, fashion , flora, and fauna, forms and decorative techniques from the glamorous eras and appear in the most sophisticated versions of contemporary trends. KOKET brings empowering style to a highly edited unique collection of furniture, passing on a sense of entitlement, exclusivity and prestige.
Otis and Otis is the design work of Casey Otis. Her work explores forms to be found in materials, often featuring the raw textures and shapes that can emerge when materials are manipulated. Other work explores how the arrangement of multiple simple elements can create a variety of forms. She works to make useful objects that are expressive of materials and method.
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Contemporary custom made furniture that speaks for itself.
PELLE creates objects and design for the modern age. Merging architectural practice and pristine craftwork, founders Jean and Oliver Pelle imbue their collections with a keen aesthetic and studied attention to functionality. Their pieces are to be lived with, handled, worn, and enjoyed. At the heart of PELLE’s work is a fusing of primary elements with modern form – geologic lines repurposed, blown glass and coiled leather forged to light contemporary spaces.
Their work encompasses sculptural furniture, eye-catching commercial signage, custom architectural elements and non-functional metal sculpture. Slamon Studio works with customers and collectors to create site-specific furniture pieces, entrance gates, staircases and lighting fixtures.
SR furniture defies conventional boundaries. Founded by the artist Stefan Rurak, SR is a Brooklyn-based atelier that merges modern conceptual design with time-honored craftsmanship. The results are evocative, one-of-a-kind, solid wood furniture and accessories that are built to span generations. SR specializes in bespoke services for private clients and releases collections in boutique limited editions. By collaborating with the distinctive and profound properties of wood, SR is able to craft furniture that transcends utilitarian ends, and becomes art.
Visilek Furniture LLC principals are two pairs of father and son from Long Island, New York, with decades of furniture making experience.
Studio furniture makers ZELOUF+BELL and their team of master craftsmen have been making museum-quality, hand-built furniture to commission in their workshop in Ireland since 1992. Their award-winning work is in private collections, public offices, churches and museums, at home and abroad.
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