Design Stores in New York
After the Guggenheim I was in the mood for a little more "well designed stuff" shopping. Specifically stuff that was local or out of my price range. I got a little of both. Moss is a furniture, lighting and housewares shop in SoHo. I love looking at contemporary furniture and lighting because I'm always secretly designing a room in my head. Moooi's high backed Smoke chair made of "ebonized" read: burnt wood that had been sealed with resin and upholstered with a beautiful matte leather is a contempo-gothic masterpiece. The complete counterpoint to Philippe Stark's lucite Ghost chair. Speaking of Philippe Stark, another piece on display was his gun lamp. Base=gold covered AK with a lamp shade. My favorite lamp was a non-mass produced piece called Fall of the Damned Suspension Light made by Luc Merx and a clock called Real Time: Sweeper's Clock made by Maarten Baas. The clock is accomplished by a 12 hour cyclical film of two street...