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Totem Design presents Innovation: Living In a Nutshell
Many New Yorkers live in small spaces, some smaller than others.
Over time, you become obsessed with making the most of it, getting
up at odd hours to stack file cabinets and weed belongings, even removing
doors from hinges. Within easy reach, you also have a sofa, a desk,
two chairs, three bureaus and a small dog.
Totem Design, one of the country?s leading showcases for young contemporary
design, is proud to present the new furniture collection from Innovation,
a Danish design company who?s mission it is to facilitate living large
in a little apple.
Among the designs are never-before-released as well as re-released pieces by
Verner Panton, including the Phantom chair, the Panto Pop chair,
the Ilumesa table, and the Panto Beam lights. Known as the experimental
and uncompromising bad boy of post-war Danish design, Verner Panton pushed the
design envelope as far as he could. He used steel wire frames and molded plastic
like no designer before him.
If it is still difficult to envision Panton?s futuristic, neo-organic forms,
think Mary Quant gone Williams-Sonoma. Panton reflected the casual ideal of ?60s
and ?70s lifestyles (though ironically, he was obsessed with geometric correctness).
As his designs have something of a timeless quality, he was able to see them
return to fashionable status before his death in 1998, thus his New York rebirth
at Totem.
Also on display will be the Air table, designed by Jesper Elg and Innovation
chief designer Per Weiss; the Blade tables designed by Peter Henriksen;
and the Sector table series.
Innovation
Innovation, founded in 1971, gave the world the uncrowned king of ?70s? seating,
the Beanbag. Their philosophy of creating an anti-static living concept allowing
for continuous change and adaptation demands modular, moveable and functional
designs. Innovation?s style is aesthetic functionalism, global yet Scandinavian,
modular and contemporary.
Innovation?s is the furniture for people with a dozen restaurants, bars, shops,
fruit and flower stores on every square block, taxis that come too close to each
other, and doormen who know your business. But also suburbanites with toolsheds
bigger than a typical New York apartment may have good reason to drop by and
see these functional, elegant and slick pieces.
Discard your dream of walking through your closet to discover another room. |
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