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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 Well, ICFF is over and I am a bag of mixed emotions. I think my favorite booth was Elizabeth Paige Smith . I think designers gravitate towards stuff that they have some common ground with. She has some wonderful things. It is encouraging to find designers thinking outside the design box (check out the Pod Wardrobe). There were several Pratt people there who had scrounged up the money for a booth. I wonder how effective this means is as a way of establishing your business. I would like to aspire to this level. I am planning on finishing up a couple of projects this summer and developing a stronger body of work…that is, in between my trips to Coney Island. I was a little disappointed in some ways. I had worked myself up to think that this would be a huge blossoming for me. This of course, is unrealistic and I know this for sure, but some people don’t get me – and so consequently – some people won’t get my work. I think that what is needed is to make my statement of work larger and clearer. One little piece mixed in with a bunch of other people’s is hard to get noticed. It was a very valuable experience, though. It made me surer that I don’t want to be designing credenzas for the next thirty years. There were so many things that looked alike from booth to booth. The amount of work that really truly snazzed me was kind of minimal compared to how much stuff was there. That’s life, I guess. I’m just happy to have something done done done. I have a hard time with closure…. And now I can move on. Thursday, May 16, 2002 05/16/02 11:10 AM Yay! My chair-chair was selected to be at Pratt’s booth at ICFF this weekend! I entered it a bit late, so I wasn’t very optimistic about it getting in. They chose ten products – five of which are chairs. I haven’t gone to ICFF in a couple of years because I’ve felt like such a design outsider. What a lovely bit of affirmation. So if you go to ICFF check it out – booth 568… but here is a teaser:
I am in the process of calculating how much this little darling would cost because happily - people have asked me! Who'd of thunk? Are there people out there who can actually afford this type of thing? I'm thinking about designing a series of maybe four so that they can be dining chairs (it's more that height and comfort) and then making a table to match. Pretty groovy, eh? |
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