Architectural Digest Home Design Show highlights
A table from Exotic Wood Furniture, based in Nesconset. Credit: Handout
The recent Architectural Digest Home Design Show held at Pier 94 in Manhattan featured designer home furnishings geared to a high-end customer. The trend at the show was for rich natural woods, which showed up in everything from storage units to appliances. Here, some of the Long Island-based companies represented at the show.
Flash Freeze
Roslyn Heights-based Sub-Zero distributor Westye Groupe showed off its latest model, BI-36U/O Overlay ($7,135). The Energy Star qualified unit features built-in air filtration to keep your groceries fresh, and is customizable with your own cabinetry overlay to help keep your kitchen looking fresh, too. Available at select high-end appliance stores.
Totally Hooked
For homes without a mudroom or those that lack closet space, Yaphank-based Muddwall has a line of storage units designed to serve as an extra closet without the need for an expensive remodel. The organizers range in price from the Ocean (shown, $1,380), which perfectly suits any beach house, to the Merlot ($2,100), which holds a dozen bottles of wine. There are eight designs in all. The products just launched at this event, and are available only through the company's Web site at Muddwall.com.
Bench Impress
Furniture designer Nico Yektai, whose studio is in Sag Harbor, combines glass, concrete and a variety of woods to create painterly pieces that also reflect the visible effects that time and the environment have on his work. One of those pieces, the one-of-a-kind Bench #13, is made of sapele wood and white cast concrete ($9,100). It's 92 inches long and is as much a work of art as it is a piece of furniture. Available directly from the designer at NicoYektai.com.
Table Service
Based in Nesconset, Exotic Wood Furniture creates unique natural-edged desks and tables from reclaimed woods and recycled metals. This large conference table ($26,000) was made from a 9-foot redwood slab salvaged from a tree that fell in a California forest fire. The metal is salvaged from I-beams recycled from a demolition job on Long Island. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and can be purchased through exoticwoodfurniture.com.
Hot Seat
The McNeill Art Group in Southampton showed the work of painter-turned-furniture designer Jeff Muhs. His six-piece Emirate Furniture Collection gives an updated approach to 1950s modern design, using Baltic birch and laminates. The Emirate Chair, made from Formica, pony hide and Baltic birch, will be limited to 100 pieces ($3,000). Available from the McNeillArtGroup.com.
