Connecting Parts by WantedDesign | News | Architonic

Now the WantedDesign Manhattan trade show is back with all its parts – Look Book, a platform nurturing business opportunities for a select few high-end designers, makers and studios from the US and Canada. Fostering connections between them and their customisable products and the Architectural and Design community working in residential and hospitality design, Look Book 2021 includes Nina Cho, Simon Johns, Bowen Liu, Ian Love Design Indo-, and Lorekform.

Launch Pad, meanwhile, is a program sponsored by American Standard, that sees international emerging designers introducing new concepts and prototypes of furniture, accessories and lighting. The Best of Launch Pad winners have been chosen from a strong group of participants, by a jury headed up by Jaime Derringer of Design Milk. They are Echo Zhan, in the lighting category, for her colour-changing wall light, Revolve and Tomma Bloom for Tomma Bloom for her textile collection ‘Sonia and Rene’, that reinterprets Art Deco themes for a contemporary audience. Both will show in-person at the Javits Center.