ICFF 2009: The International Contemporary Furniture Fair
Crystal clear
Recession notwithstanding, touches of super-lux design could be seen at the show, and had there been a prize for the category, Swarovski would have won. The company employed Orion to showcase Swarovskis renown crystals. Orion obliged, lining the booths walls with 24-inch panels in an array of materials, such as Corian, Ultrasuede, marbleized steel, black mirror, ash wood and teak, each embedded with brilliant stones. A lemon leaf motif in acrylic was particularly beautiful, embedded with a narrow band of crystal flat-backs that roll up like ribbon and are sold by the meter. www.crystallized.com.
Recession notwithstanding, touches of super-lux design could be seen at the show, and had there been a prize for the category, Swarovski would have won. The company employed Orion to showcase Swarovskis renown crystals. Orion obliged, lining the booths walls with 24-inch panels in an array of materials, such as Corian, Ultrasuede, marbleized steel, black mirror, ash wood and teak, each embedded with brilliant stones. A lemon leaf motif in acrylic was particularly beautiful, embedded with a narrow band of crystal flat-backs that roll up like ribbon and are sold by the meter. www.crystallized.com.
(Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)
The number of exhibitors may have been down 7% and talk of the recession may have dominated, but clever ideas did manage to emerge from the nation’s premiere modern design show. Click to see what Times staff writer Barbara Thornburg discovered.
