Fall 2016 Events

FALL

EVENTS 2016

Dialogues on Design Dialogues on Design, a series of six conversations moderated

by Newell Turner, editorial director of the Hearst Design Group, returns for its third year. In each session, leading designers discuss their approach to work: their inspirations and influences, their response to and leadership in trends, and the evolution of the field. Each Dialogue concludes with a reception where audience members have the opportunity to meet and talk with the designers.

Thursday, October 13, 5pm

Thursday, November 10, 5pm

Nina Campbell interior designer

Ann Pyne, interior designer, president of McMillen Interior Design & Decoration

Rita Konig interior designer and writer

Elizabeth Pyne interior designer, McMillen Plus

The Educated Eye: A Luncheon to Benefit the New York School of Interior Design Tuesday, September 20, 2016, 12:30pm The Educated Eye celebrates the 100th anniversary of NYSID and the 120th anniversary of House Beautiful with brief presentations by Sophie Donelson, editor-in-chief, House Beautiful; Christopher Spitzmiller, designer; and Bunny Williams, interior designer, about a current passion that is inspiring their work.

Participation in Dialogues on Design is by subscription; $300 for the series of six programs.

Tickets for The Educated Eye Luncheon are available separate from the series for $250 each. Proceeds of this event support the NYSID scholarship fund.

For further information, to subscribe to the series, or purchase tickets to the luncheon, please visit nysid.edu/dialogues or contact Samantha Fingleton at sfingleton@nysid.edu or (212) 472-1500 x431.

ILYA PULYAEV, MFA-2, DESIGNING TOMORROW’S HOME.

ILYA PULYAEV, MFA-2, SUBMERSIBLE UNIT.

Fall Exhibition Designing Tomorrow’s Home What will the future of living look like? It is a question and concept that has been explored repeatedly over the last century. In celebration of the New York School of Interior Design’s 100th anniversary, NYSID’s post-professional Master of Fine Arts (MFA-2) students were asked to design what the home of the future will look like in New York City–a future incorporating technology-fueled innovation, sustainability as second nature, and where space is at a premium–all while supporting the iconic concept of the home as a refuge and source of comfort.

The exhibition will be on view from September 30–December 3, 2016 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 29, 6–8pm

NYSID Gallery 161 East 69 Street, NYC Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11am–6pm Admission is free. nysid.edu/tomorrowshome This exhibition is sponsored in part by

COVER, TOP: KEVIN X. GARCIA, MFA-2, LIVING UNDER THE BRIDGE. COVER, BOTTOM: EMMANUELLE BREZAULT, MFA-2, HABITATING THE FUTURE.

FALL

2016

EVENTS

SEPTEMBER Wednesday, September 21

6pm

Redefining Traditional Style for Today’s Modern World What we think of as traditional is often rooted in a specific historic style, with its matching furniture, distinct patterns, and saturated colors. But contemporary life has changed how we use our spaces and what we expect from them.

A preview of NYSID’s 2017 spring exhibition, this panel discussion will explore how the next generation of designers may adapt traditional styles to fit with a modern sensibility, featuring representatives from Brizo, Ethan Allen, Hinkley Lighting, Mottahedeh, and Sunbrella. Moderated by Traditional Home magazine.

ILYA PULYAEV, MFA-2, SUBMERSIBLE UNIT.

NOVEMBER

OCTOBER Wednesday, October 5

6pm

Witold Rybczynski: A Tool for Sitting The distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski talks about the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. The history of the chair is a social as well as a technological history—of different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes.

There will be a book signing following the lecture featuring Rybczynski’s new book Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2016).

Wednesday, November 2

Symposium

6pm

[Re] Designing & [Co] Living the [New] American Dream

Friday, October 7 9am–5:30pm

What used to be seen as the antithesis to the classic American dream, moving to the city instead of buying a home and settling down in the suburbs, has become the new norm. Jeff Wilson, CEO, KASITA; Darrick Borowski, principal, ARExA; and Brad Hargreaves, founder & CEO, Common and co-founder, General Assembly, will discuss trends driving innovation in the housing industry and the response to the issues that arise from the desire to live in tight-knit urban neighborhoods that are close to work and filled with amenities.

Interior Design: The Essential Profession This one-day symposium will engage attendees in dialogue about how interior design functions in today’s dynamic global environment, and the powerful and growing contributions of interior design to the future of residential, healthcare, hospitality environments, and contemporary interdisciplinary collaboration.

Wednesday, October 19

6pm

Michael I. and Patricia M. Sovern Lecture on Design

Deborah Berke: Architecture Inside Out Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is an architect, educator, founder of Deborah Berke Partners and dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the first woman to hold the position.

She has been a professor (adjunct) at Yale since 1987. In 2012 she was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at the University of California at Berkeley, which is given to an architect who has advanced the position of women in the profession and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and the community. Berke and her firm are the subject of two recent books: House Rules (Rizzoli, July 2016), which focuses on the firm’s residential work and offers practical and poetic advice for better living; and Working (Artifice, fall 2016), a survey of the firm’s workspaces, including offices, galleries, factories, and learning environments.

Free and open to the public. Reservations are encouraged.

There will be a reception immediately following the lecture.

Thursday, October 27

6pm

Interior Design Master Class Poised to become the essential book on design, Interior Design Master Class (Rizzoli, October 2016) collects the expertise and knowledge of the best interior designers working today. The book features 100 essays by America’s top designers—from established design legends to members of the new guard—each of whom have chosen a single subject to explore. Author Carl Dellatore will be joined

by Penny Drue Baird (Paris), Glenn Gissler (Alchemy), Mariette Himes and Brooke Gomez (Neutrals), and Thomas Jayne (Provenance), as they discuss their work, chosen topics, and evolution of the interior design profession.

There will be a book signing immediately following the lecture.

Wednesday, November 30

6pm

Primo Orpilla: Working Beautifully, Making Space for New Business Environments Every modern office is an ecosystem of interconnected activities—some in harmony, others in conflict—all requiring designated spaces for those functions. For 25 years Primo Orpilla and Studio O+A have designed work environments that promote the health and vigor of that ecosystem. Recognizing that a café can be as important to getting the job done as a conference room and that people working in an open plan still need places to be alone, Orpilla will disucss how O+A has developed a vocabulary of space types equally adaptable to start-ups occupying their first real office and to corporate giants hitting the refresh button.

This state-of-the-profession event features keynote presentations by architectural and design critic and author Aaron Betsky and behavioral economist Dan Ariely, as well as conversations with Contract magazine’s editor-in-chief John Czarnecki, ASID’s chief executive officer Randy Fiser, Contract ’s “Designer of the Year” Todd Hesier, hospitality designer Susan Nagle of awarding-winning Bentel & Bentel, Metropolis magazine’s editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy, and many more. Attendees can earn .7 CEU’s/7.0 LU’s.

To learn more and register, visit nysid.edu/symposium.

YELP OFFICE, STUDIO O+A. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASPER SANIDAD.

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at New York School of Interior Design, Arthur Satz Auditorium, 170 East 70 Street, NYC. Tickets: $12 general public $10 seniors and non-NYSID students NYSID students & faculty are free To purchase or reserve tickets in advance, visit nysid.edu/publicprograms or call (212) 472-1500 x405.

The fall 2016 Public Programs are sponsored in part by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) New York Metro Chapter.