icff 2011, the good, the bad and the ugly

Well,

it's that time of the year again.

NYC Furniture Fest 2011,

filled with the good the bad and the ugly.

The chair above satisfies two of those 

criteria....

In case you were wondering.

 This table was great.

Designed by a Swiss architect...

but I can't remember his name for the life of me right now....

Really nicely constructed too,

here in the goode olde US of A.

Look how EXCITED that kid is

to see the child's toilet seat demo!!!

I guess this is for the "Jackass" crowd....

I always liked this 

"Eiffel"stool by Shigeki Fujishiro.

First in fiberboard and now in

shiny chrome.

It works.

Does this stool have a chubby for me or what?

Lots of carbon fiber crap at the show.

Slick, bug-like and 99.9% BAD....

Would look perfect in your Miami condo Brad....

Here I am taking a break.

Is that a camera in your lap Poppie

or are you just happy to see me???

It certainly does.

Marcel Wander's bald spot.

Just kidding Marcel,

I'm just jealous,

you were looking suave as hell.

King of ICFF,

for the second year in a row,

TOM DIXON.

He was giving out these goofy international orange

vinyl bags that everyone was coveting.

They were pretty goofy,

but I did go back by his booth 

about 10 times to try to get one....

I forgot to get a shot,

but here is one from Milano:

See what I mean?

Love/Hate

Mostly hate.

I really liked this floor lamp in his booth.

Noguchi's Akari meets King Midas

Leave it to Philippe Starck

to have the most pretentious piece in the show.

(And at ICFF, that is saying A LOT!)

Seriously,

look at it,

for Baccarat too.

Puur-fect...

Lichterloh cabinet

from the Austrian Pavillion.

There is always something fun in their State sponsored booth,

and everyone always seems like they are slightly tipsy

and having a blast.

I like that.

What the hell is this vintage

 KEM Weber chair doing at ICFF?

 The new "Airline Chair".

At least they didn't just copy it....

Speaking of copying...

This was in some old dudes booth full

of NOTHING you would want to copy.

 This is a one liner, but I really liked it!

The "Rubber Table" by Thomas Schnur

He's looking for a producer.

It was in the German Pavilion.

 My old college roommate 

Peter Sandback 

was back

with amazing new work.

LOVED this table.

It reminded me of Joseph Albers getting it on with Ruhlmann....

Ok,

time for 

Worst booth / Best booth.

Mr. Top Hat above gets the award for the worst booth.

Sorry Dude, 

I know you tried and busted your ass with these pieces,

but for so many reasons you illustrate what I hate in 

contemporary furniture design.

Best Booth,

Wang, Jinsheng's Studio

I can't explain fully why this worked so well.

Brain said he should have been at Art Basel not ICFF.

I know it kinda looks goofy,

but it wasn't. 

It rocked.

(No pun intended.)

Until next year....