Enriching its exhibition programme, each year COLLECTIBLE devises a diverse programme of talks addressing themes around contemporary collectible design, and invites leading figures from various backgrounds to gather together and discuss specific subjects.
PANEL
Thursday, September 4 at 2:00 pm
What is the relationship between collectible design and the interior space? How do objects take on new meaning when thoughtfully placed within curated interiors, and how can the juxtaposition of contemporary with vintage pieces or antiques result in poignant new design narratives? Taking the new VIGNETTE section as its launching point, the discussion reveals how these presentations distill each studio’s creative vision, how interior design can elevate collectible works, and how collectible pieces, in turn, activate space with emotional and cultural resonance.
With: Crina Arghirescu Rogard (Interior Architect & Designer, Founder of Crina Arghirescu Architecture), Drew McGukin (Interior & Product Designer, Founder Drew McGukin Interiors), Michael Hilal, Studio Michael Hilal (Curator of VIGNETTE, COLLECTIBLE NYC) and Emily Thurman (Interior Designer; Founder, Emily Thurman Studio)
Moderated by: Lila Allen (Editor in Chief, Wrong House)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
DESIGNING LEGACY: The New Heirlooms
PANEL
Thursday, September 4 at 4:00 pm
The value of objects and furniture with longevity is ever-increasing. As globalization and mass-market production continues to drive consumption of work that is designed to be discarded, the collectible design market has grown in response as we seek to add more meaning to our homes. Occupying the liminal space between art and design, collectible works have become contemporary heirlooms—pieces that combine artistry, customization, and conceptual significance. Ryan Waddoups, Deputy Editor of Galerie Magazine, speaks with leading interior designers about their experience commissioning and placing these pieces, as well as educating clients about the value of artisanship and limited editions.
With: Clive Lonstein (Founder & Principal, Clive Lonstein), Alfredo Paredes (Founder and Principal, Alfredo Paredes Studio) and Andrew Torrey (Founder & Principal Designer, TORREY)
Moderated by: Ryan Waddoups (Deputy Editor, Design, Galerie)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
The Fine Art of Applied Art: How Design Shapes You
PANEL
Friday, September 5 at 2:00 pm
The design world generally operates on the notion that objects and spaces can impact our lives: that design can solve problems, elevate everyday actions, and make it easier, more pleasurable, or more aesthetically pleasing to do them. But what about the deeper, human impacts design can have on our lives? Using the work of artist Allan Wexler, including his recent collaborative performances for the forthcoming book, A New Futurist Cookbook, with architect and Office of Tangible Space co-founder Michael Yarinsky, this conversation will unpack what, exactly, those impacts are, and how we might shift the ways we interact with objects and spaces in order to be more conscious of what we do each day—and to be better people for ourselves, our communities, and our world.
With: Allan Wexler (Artist and Educator) and Michael Yarinsky (Architect and Co-founder, Office of Tangible Space)
Moderated by:Tiffany Jow (Editor-in-chief, Untapped)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
Collecting Collectible Design
PANEL
Friday, September 5 at 4:00 pm
What does it mean to collect design today, when objects are created in limited editions with artistic intent? How do notions of value, rarity, and functionality shift when design sits at the crossroads of art and utility? And what motivates a new generation of collectors to engage with this evolving field?
With: Phillip Collins (Good Black Art, Founder), Alyssa Gerasimoff (Founder & CEO, Erria), Emily Marant (Advisor at Large, Former Director COLLECTIBLE NY 2024),
Nazy Nazhand (Art Consultant and Founder, Nazhand Art & Culture) and Scott Lippens (Gallery Director & Curator, Uppercut)
Moderated by: Adrian Madlener (Freelance Design Writer & Co-Founder, EXT.RUDE.D)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Saturday, September 6 at 2:00 pm
Hospitality is predicated upon sense and feeling—from textures, scents, and flavors to the influence of collectible design on our visual interpretation. Through design, expectations are established and guests are guided into a narrative world. Within this panel, our speakers will explore the ways in which the intersection of collectible design and hospitality can tell a successful story.
With: Xavier Donnelly (Creative Director, ASH), Jon Gray (Chef & Co-Founder, Ghetto Gastro), Lionel Jadot (Interior Designer, Artist & Founder of Zaventem Ateliers), Gabriella Khalil (Creative Director), Nick Ozemba (Co-Founder, In Common With & Quarters)
Moderated by: David Graver (Editor in Chief, Surface)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Saturday, September 6 at 4:00 pm
The traditional media landscape may be shrinking, but in its place, a new generation of independent voices has cropped up via social media, podcasts, and newsletters on platforms like Substack to help decode design and culture from a more critical, more personal, and — dare we say — more entertaining perspective. This panel, moderated by Sight Unseen co-founder and editor Jill Singer, will explore the intersection of design, culture, and media, speaking to some of the most interesting new creators about how they built their platforms, why their content resonates in the current climate, and what the new role of media is in design and culture.
With: Emma Apple Chozick (Founder of gr8 collab, Design Writer, Cultural Curator), Justin Moran (Creative Director & Editor), Dan Rosen (Comedian, Podcaster, Commentator) and Matt Starr (Founder of Dream Baby Press)
Moderated by: Jill Singer (Co-Founder, Sight Unseen)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 pm
Alchemy persists, not as science, but as a radical method of design. Join Misha Kahn and Rich Aybar in dialogue with Natalie Kovacs as they explore transformation as the DNA of their work and practice. With curator Natalie Kovacs as moderator, the conversation frames alchemy as a contemporary methodology: a means of rethinking material value, design practice, and artistic trajectory.
With: Rich Aybar (Sculptor and Designer) and Misha Kahn (Sculptor and Designer)
Moderated by: Natalie Kovacs (Curator and Author)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Sunday, September 7 at 4:00 pm
Hardware stores have long been secret playgrounds for the design-savvy. Few explore them with more curiosity than designer Adam Charlap Hyman, who has culled 100 objects from around the globe for CULTURED at HOME—CULTURED’s new design issue, guest edited by Cooper Hewitt’s Alexandra Cunningham Cameron. In conversation with Suzanne Slesin, co-author of cult classic High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home, and Native Agents founder Cynthia Leung, the panel will dive into their shared obsession with hardware-store finds, reveal insider aisle-hunting tips, and celebrate the beauty of the basic. The program will feature a show-and-tell of a few of the panelists' favorite finds, which will be gifted to audience members after the talk.
With: Adam Charlap Hyman (Principal, Interiors, Charlap Hyman & Herrero), Cynthia Leung (Founder, Native Agents) and Suzanne Slesin (Publisher & Editorial Director, Pointed Leaf Press)
Moderated by: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron (Guest Editor, CULTURED at HOME)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
Talk space furniture curated by
Enriching its exhibition programme, each year COLLECTIBLE devises a diverse programme of talks addressing themes around contemporary collectible design, and invites leading figures from various backgrounds to gather together and discuss specific subjects.
PANEL
Thursday, September 4 at 2:00 pm
What is the relationship between collectible design and the interior space? How do objects take on new meaning when thoughtfully placed within curated interiors, and how can the juxtaposition of contemporary with vintage pieces or antiques result in poignant new design narratives? Taking the new VIGNETTE section as its launching point, the discussion reveals how these presentations distill each studio’s creative vision, how interior design can elevate collectible works, and how collectible pieces, in turn, activate space with emotional and cultural resonance.
With: Crina Arghirescu Rogard (Interior Architect & Designer, Founder of Crina Arghirescu Architecture), Drew McGukin (Interior & Product Designer, Founder Drew McGukin Interiors), Michael Hilal, Studio Michael Hilal (Curator of VIGNETTE, COLLECTIBLE NYC) and Emily Thurman (Interior Designer; Founder, Emily Thurman Studio)
Moderated by: Lila Allen (Editor in Chief, Wrong House)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
DESIGNING LEGACY: The New Heirlooms
PANEL
Thursday, September 4 at 4:00 pm
The value of objects and furniture with longevity is ever-increasing. As globalization and mass-market production continues to drive consumption of work that is designed to be discarded, the collectible design market has grown in response as we seek to add more meaning to our homes. Occupying the liminal space between art and design, collectible works have become contemporary heirlooms—pieces that combine artistry, customization, and conceptual significance. Ryan Waddoups, Deputy Editor of Galerie Magazine, speaks with leading interior designers about their experience commissioning and placing these pieces, as well as educating clients about the value of artisanship and limited editions.
With: Clive Lonstein (Founder & Principal, Clive Lonstein), Alfredo Paredes (Founder and Principal, Alfredo Paredes Studio) and Andrew Torrey (Founder & Principal Designer, TORREY)
Moderated by: Ryan Waddoups (Deputy Editor, Design, Galerie)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
The Fine Art of Applied Art: How Design Shapes You
PANEL
Friday, September 5 at 2:00 pm
The design world generally operates on the notion that objects and spaces can impact our lives: that design can solve problems, elevate everyday actions, and make it easier, more pleasurable, or more aesthetically pleasing to do them. But what about the deeper, human impacts design can have on our lives? Using the work of artist Allan Wexler, including his recent collaborative performances for the forthcoming book, A New Futurist Cookbook, with architect and Office of Tangible Space co-founder Michael Yarinsky, this conversation will unpack what, exactly, those impacts are, and how we might shift the ways we interact with objects and spaces in order to be more conscious of what we do each day—and to be better people for ourselves, our communities, and our world.
With: Allan Wexler (Artist and Educator) and Michael Yarinsky (Architect and Co-founder, Office of Tangible Space)
Moderated by:Tiffany Jow (Editor-in-chief, Untapped)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
Collecting Collectible Design
PANEL
Friday, September 5 at 4:00 pm
What does it mean to collect design today, when objects are created in limited editions with artistic intent? How do notions of value, rarity, and functionality shift when design sits at the crossroads of art and utility? And what motivates a new generation of collectors to engage with this evolving field?
With: Phillip Collins (Good Black Art, Founder), Alyssa Gerasimoff (Founder & CEO, Erria), Emily Marant (Advisor at Large, Former Director COLLECTIBLE NY 2024),
Nazy Nazhand (Art Consultant and Founder, Nazhand Art & Culture) and Scott Lippens (Gallery Director & Curator, Uppercut)
Moderated by: Adrian Madlener (Freelance Design Writer & Co-Founder, EXT.RUDE.D)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Saturday, September 6 at 2:00 pm
Hospitality is predicated upon sense and feeling—from textures, scents, and flavors to the influence of collectible design on our visual interpretation. Through design, expectations are established and guests are guided into a narrative world. Within this panel, our speakers will explore the ways in which the intersection of collectible design and hospitality can tell a successful story.
With: Xavier Donnelly (Creative Director, ASH), Jon Gray (Chef & Co-Founder, Ghetto Gastro), Lionel Jadot (Interior Designer, Artist & Founder of Zaventem Ateliers), Gabriella Khalil (Creative Director), Nick Ozemba (Co-Founder, In Common With & Quarters)
Moderated by: David Graver (Editor in Chief, Surface)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Saturday, September 6 at 4:00 pm
The traditional media landscape may be shrinking, but in its place, a new generation of independent voices has cropped up via social media, podcasts, and newsletters on platforms like Substack to help decode design and culture from a more critical, more personal, and — dare we say — more entertaining perspective. This panel, moderated by Sight Unseen co-founder and editor Jill Singer, will explore the intersection of design, culture, and media, speaking to some of the most interesting new creators about how they built their platforms, why their content resonates in the current climate, and what the new role of media is in design and culture.
With: Emma Apple Chozick (Founder of gr8 collab, Design Writer, Cultural Curator), Justin Moran (Creative Director & Editor), Dan Rosen (Comedian, Podcaster, Commentator) and Matt Starr (Founder of Dream Baby Press)
Moderated by: Jill Singer (Co-Founder, Sight Unseen)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 pm
Alchemy persists, not as science, but as a radical method of design. Join Misha Kahn and Rich Aybar in dialogue with Natalie Kovacs as they explore transformation as the DNA of their work and practice. With curator Natalie Kovacs as moderator, the conversation frames alchemy as a contemporary methodology: a means of rethinking material value, design practice, and artistic trajectory.
With: Rich Aybar (Sculptor and Designer) and Misha Kahn (Sculptor and Designer)
Moderated by: Natalie Kovacs (Curator and Author)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
PANEL
Sunday, September 7 at 4:00 pm
Hardware stores have long been secret playgrounds for the design-savvy. Few explore them with more curiosity than designer Adam Charlap Hyman, who has culled 100 objects from around the globe for CULTURED at HOME—CULTURED’s new design issue, guest edited by Cooper Hewitt’s Alexandra Cunningham Cameron. In conversation with Suzanne Slesin, co-author of cult classic High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home, and Native Agents founder Cynthia Leung, the panel will dive into their shared obsession with hardware-store finds, reveal insider aisle-hunting tips, and celebrate the beauty of the basic. The program will feature a show-and-tell of a few of the panelists' favorite finds, which will be gifted to audience members after the talk.
With: Adam Charlap Hyman (Principal, Interiors, Charlap Hyman & Herrero), Cynthia Leung (Founder, Native Agents) and Suzanne Slesin (Publisher & Editorial Director, Pointed Leaf Press)
Moderated by: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron (Guest Editor, CULTURED at HOME)
Free access to talks with your fair ticket.
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