MacKenzie-Childs Announces Black Lives Matter Scholarship for Design
Ceramics home product company MacKenzie-Childs has announced five inaugural scholars for its new Black Lives Matter Scholarship for Design, which awards money intended for design education. Rebecca Proctor, creative director and chief brand officer at the company, said in a statement: “MacKenzie-Childs believes that design is the very heartbeat of our company and that creating opportunities in the field of design is essential to our heritage and the future of design in all its forms. This annual scholarship is intended to help Black youth and empower them to pursue careers in these all-important fields.”
Fairs
Alexa Hampton and Thom Filicia Bring High Point Collections to the Big Apple
If you are among the many New York designers who didn’t make it to High Point Market this past year, Alexa Hampton and Thom Filicia have come up with a way for you to get in on the action. The designers and friends, both looking for ways to promote their furniture lines, teamed up with the New York Design Center for a special event called Market on the Move. On view at the Sedgwick & Brattle and Theodore Alexander showrooms, the pop-up activation is accepting appointments through February 28. Here’s hoping that the concept expands to even more showrooms across the country soon.
Events, Fairs, and Pop-Ups Kick Off—Or Update Their 2021 Plans
Former Met curator Beatrice Galilee, whose new book was recently published, is set to kick off the latest installation of her The World Around Summit tomorrow, January 30. Notably, Galilee founded the nonprofit organization alongside Diego Marroquin, whose home was just featured in AD. Soon to follow will be Masterpiece Symposium: Journeys Through the Material World, which will take place online on February 3–4. (Interested parties can register at the link here.)
Also of note: Kicking off February 3 is the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, part of Stockholm Design Week. And while it is still a ways away, TEFAF has announced important changes to its 2021 lineup. TEFAF Maastricht will now take place in person come September, with an accompanying online component. However, TEFAF New York, originally slated for this spring, has been postponed to 2022.
Finally, those looking for additional online programing would do well to check out Farnsworth House’s “Poetry in Place and Time: From Edith Farnsworth’s Nature Poems to Today’s Ecopoetics” on February 7, or Harvard GSD’s new virtual public lecture program slated for this spring. However, IRL happenings are indeed still taking place—as the new Friedman Benda pop-up gallery in Miami helps prove.
In the News
Real Housewives of New York City Castmate and Construction CEO Announces Mayoral Candidacy
Barbara Kavovit may not have been the most popular castmate on The Real Housewives of New York City, but she clearly feels optimistic that the whole city may feel differently. As the New York Times recently covered, Kavovit is running for mayor in an already crowded field. What’s this got to do with the design industry, though? Kavovit is notably the founder and CEO of her own construction firm, Evergreen Construction.
Openings
T.W. Ryan Architecture Designs New Christie’s San Francisco Flagship
Christie’s has made an exciting improvement to its presence on the West Coast, thanks to T.W. Ryan Architecture. The firm has designed a new San Francisco flagship for the auction house, located in Gallery Building at 49 Geary Street. Ellanor Notides, the West Coast chairman of Christie’s, said in a statement: “Although Christie’s San Francisco has had an established presence in the Bay Area since 1982, our new gallery space extends our ability to serve and participate in this thriving community. Our dedicated exhibition space will give us the ability to host tours and events in a new way, and will provide us with unparalleled opportunities to directly engage with clients and present works of art and objects.”
The reception area.
Photo: Joe Fletcher
