Booth M81- AD Show March 18-21
The Architectural digest home show begins this Thursday in NYC. You can find more information here. If you would like to pre register for free tickets you can find the necessary information on Nico Yektai’s Facbook Fan Page
Here are the pieces that I will be exhibiting in NYC.
Glass hall Table
Pedestal Table #9
Dining Table #4
Chair #4
Mirror With Two Drawers
Corner Piece #3
Bench #13
AD Show In New York City
Architectural Digest Home Show in NYC 2010
Booth M81 Mar 18-21
The Architectural Digest Home Show will be taking place in New York City on Pier 94, March 18-21, 2010. Nico Yektai will be exhibiting his modern furniture in the Made section. The Made section was introduced a few years ago to showcase designer/Artist made objects for the home. Booth M81 will feature half a dozen pieces of furniture that will showcase the artists unique perspective on furniture. These pieces will be ready to move straight into your home or project or serve as a starting point for further discussions about a commission.
Thursday March 18 10am-6pm (Preview + Industry)
Friday March 19 10am-6pm
Saturday Mach 20 10am-6pm
Sunday March 21 10am-6pm
More Information on tickets, pricing, location and parking
Two New Tables With Glass
The new hall table has quickly evolved from the model stage to near completion good thing since the Architectural Digest Home Show is coming right up. This often happens when the miniature has clarified the major design considerations. I knew that this was going to be an interesting piece and more importantly I knew exactly what needed to be done. All of the head scratching was out of the way, thanks to the model building process. I will add a photo with the clamps off so you can get a feel for the process of going from model to real piece. The structure is faithful to the scale version but all of the detailing came to life in the full scale version.
The glass is on order and I am feeling inspired so I set out to make an accompanying piece. As I think about the upcoming shows that I will be participating in I realized that I would like to have a new pedestal table. I often use them as studies for new techniques and explorations. I am feeling like it is time to introduce something personal to the glass that is incorporated into my work.
Up to this point I have worked with glass in its most basic form- the rectangle. My furniture is capable of incorporating a stock material like this. Everything around that conventional piece of glass pushes, pulls and shifts away from convention. The natural evolution of this type of development is that I get to the point where I am comfortable with the new material and I can begin to push it from its expected form. This is the exact same process that I went through when I introduced concrete into my work. I cautiously incorporated it and then I began to allow it a greater role in the composition. Now I am ready to start the process with glass surfaces.
A pedestal table will serve me well for this experiment.
This time I am flying without a model so there will be a start and stop cadence to this one. The table is clamped to my workbench as I figure out the structure and the joinery. I am using steam bent curves from my inventory. I have an inventory of steam bent maple curves that I purchased from a company that specializes in making these parts.
The last curve is clamped in place to get a feel for the final form of the table. Now I need to figure out the glass top. This piece would suffer with a rectangular piece of glass – all I know is that the table needs a unique shape for the top.
Cardboard and scissors are my choice to work out the shape. I work it out so the glass hugs the shape of the dynamic under structure and it also adds dynamoc movement to the composition.
Now is where I panic – How much is this piece of glass going to cost?
I shift gears and make a drawing so I can get a quote. I create a grid on the template and then I draw it on my laptop and email it to my glass supplier.
Here is the drawing I sent them. The outer square is for reference only but it nicely shows the movement of the glass top. The silence of the glass supplier means that they may not have received my email or it could mean that this is ghoing to be cost prohibitive… my fingers are crossed.
Regardless of the glass snafu I press on with the table.
Before I left for the day I was able to shape and assemble one more leg. Today I will loosely assemble the third leg and work out the third curve. I seem to insist on not taking all of the pictures I need so I will be adding another post shortly.
