Members of the international design community are coming to Detroit this Thursday, Oct. 29, to celebrate the launch of Culture Lab Design, an exclusive line of "green space"-themed products for the home. The products are collaborations between internationally-renowned and Detroit-based designers, a result of Culture Lab Detroit programming. The products will be available to the public at the Midtown store Nora from Oct. 30 through Nov. 15 and range from $65 to $2,000.
Jane Schulak, founder of Culture Lab Detroit, curated teams of outside and local talent to design unique products for the home. The pop-up shop is being hosted at Nora, itself a store selling "thoughtfully designed housewares, jewelry, gifts, and accessories." One of the Culture Lab Design product designers, Brooklyn-based David Stark, is also designing the pop-up space at Nora.
"Literally a grass roots project, our store-in-store structure will house products from designers that I have great respect for, all relating to the land," Stark says in a statement. "Truly exciting."
- Stark has also teamed with Detroit ceramicist Victoria Ashley Shaheen to create a variety of glazed flower rests that sit atop glass vases.
- New York-based interior designer Kelly Behun has partnered with Cass Community Social Services to re-purpose discarded tires as hanging planters.
- Fernando and Humberto Campana, interior designers in Sao Paolo, and Todd Erikson of College for Creative Studies have designed a cast aluminum 4" x 11" vase.
- New York's Sebastian Errazuriz and Detroit's Samuel Arambula have produced Rock Lamp, photo luminescent lamps powered not by electricity but by high grade phosphorescent material.
- Paola Navone, an architect and designer from Milan, teams with Andrew Ward of Line Studio for April Planter, a cement planter for garden centerpieces. Navone also teamed with Detroit Denim Company to create Mario Overalls, functional overalls for garden use.
In anticipation of the pop-up, Nora has commissioned a number of additional Detroit-based designers, producing more than a dozen home products to be sold alongside the featured collaborative works.
Nora is located at 4240 Cass Ave., Ste. 109, in the Auburn building.
Writer: MJ Galbraith
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