Design
Murphy's Law: Small Space - Big Screen
Here in NYC at the Architectural Digest’s Home Design Show on Pier 94 one (me) discovers unique opportunities... like the chance to chat with acclaimed Furniture Designer Dakota Jackson.
I asked him his thoughts Re: the trends, innovations (and opportunities) in view of our recession-battered early 21st Century. What’s our new relationship with space & place? What are the new approaches to modularity, reuse & smart-small living?
His comments take us back + forward... in time. I learned that one of his designs revisits the Murphy bed, transforming living room - to bed room -and back... in an instant. Another is a nesting table providing modularity, multi-use functionality and beauty... all at the same time.
Maybe we don’t need so much space & stuff after all. Might “smart-small” be the new cool, I wonder.
The idea of a home office is not new, but even it is changing, Dakota explained, “Many consider their “office” simply a laptop - with increasingly larger screens”. The ergonomics and implementations of space+place are changing for all walks of life.
Some of Dakota’s designs are created for the young, living in their first apartment. He found that the same designs are of interest to their parents and the affluent. “So, demand for these new designs are cross-demographic?” I asked... His response was one word: “Absolutely”.
Craig James
Cat-Strat | MEDIA
NY NY 18 Mar 2010
I asked him his thoughts Re: the trends, innovations (and opportunities) in view of our recession-battered early 21st Century. What’s our new relationship with space & place? What are the new approaches to modularity, reuse & smart-small living?
His comments take us back + forward... in time. I learned that one of his designs revisits the Murphy bed, transforming living room - to bed room -and back... in an instant. Another is a nesting table providing modularity, multi-use functionality and beauty... all at the same time.
Maybe we don’t need so much space & stuff after all. Might “smart-small” be the new cool, I wonder.
The idea of a home office is not new, but even it is changing, Dakota explained, “Many consider their “office” simply a laptop - with increasingly larger screens”. The ergonomics and implementations of space+place are changing for all walks of life.
Some of Dakota’s designs are created for the young, living in their first apartment. He found that the same designs are of interest to their parents and the affluent. “So, demand for these new designs are cross-demographic?” I asked... His response was one word: “Absolutely”.
Craig James
Cat-Strat | MEDIA
NY NY 18 Mar 2010