DXA studio Launches DXA Furniture
DXA studio, a New York-based architecture and design firm known for a diverse range of projects, primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, has announced the launch of their new furniture line, DXA Furniture. Designed in collaboration with Paris-based, British designer Alexander Smith, known for unique designs rooted in accessibility and sustainability, the pieces are a physical representation of the innovative design vision that has made DXA’s projects instantly recognizable.
The P/NY line from DXA Furniture and Alexander Smith is a celebration of clean, yet subtle design that references and expands on the architecture practice of DXA Studio. Moving from buildings to the intimate scale of furniture, the collaborators sought to communicate several points. First, they wanted to translate the essential and immaterial practice of drawing into furniture. This is achieved through the thin blackened steel lines that fold through each piece. This sensibility also translates in more implied ways. Planes of wood are held between the steel frames and distressed leather insets in the steel accentuate form. P/NY is comprised of timeless furniture pieces, including a writing desk, dining table, coffee table, arm chair, and side chair, that emulate the clean, elegant lines that are a signature of DXA studio’s work.
Expert engineering and fabrication was required to achieve the design’s formal simplicity along with its complex functionality. The designers worked closely with Brooklyn furniture fabricator, Yepes Fine Furniture, to produce pieces that are at once accessible, but upon further inspection are shown to have a level of complexity and sensitivity to the user’s need.
“The collaboration with Alexander was perfect. It didn’t hurt that some of our meetings were in Paris,” said DXA partner, Jordan Rogove. “We have very complimentary skillsets,” said Wayne Norbeck, also a partner at DXA. “Together we created pieces that reflect DXA’s vision and Alexander’s sense of craft.”
DXA Furniture thinks about how people live in New York City. It is no secret that space is at a premium. Apartments are small and every square inch is precious. Furniture often pulls double or triple duty. Some companies have flooded the market in quick, flexible furnishing that are clever, but disposable. DXA and Alex Smith produced furniture with another goal in mind. Timeless, minimal furniture that anticipates contemporary life in the city by acknowledging and integrating the tools people use in their everyday life. For example, the writing table provides spaces for chargers, laptops, tablets without ever appearing glib in its tech literacy. By focusing on craft and construction, the pieces are as enduring as traditional antique furniture. The goal is to create pieces that last the test of times and are passed on from generation to generation.
DXA Furniture’s P/NY Collection is available for purchase at DXAFurniture.com. Price for all pieces is available upon request, as are custom designs.
About DXA studio
DXA studio’s expertise spans an uncommonly broad spectrum of project types including multi-family and single family residential, commercial, institutional, hotel and event design. DXA provides a rare balance of highly crafted design and exceptional project management, with particular adeptness at landmarks, loft board and zoning approvals, and NYC City Planning and Uniform Land Use Review Procedures.
DXA studio’s current work includes interiors at Essex Crossing, 242 Broome Street, the 300,000 SF Hap 8 condo and rental towers in Chelsea, a multi-phase development in Astoria, 280 St. Marks, Mt. Pleasant Church Conversion, 100 Barclay and Galapagos Detroit. Additionally, DXA is designing four ground up single-family townhouses for private clients ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 SF, a 15-story tower in the Lower East Side, multiple performance venues including the famed Blue Note jazz club and the Highline Ballroom, and is working on a sustainable and health-focused development in St. Marc, Haiti as a result of winning an international design competition
At DXA studio, a project begins with an open exchange of ideas and collaboration. The client’s program and desires, along with the complexities of the project’s site are used to create a conceptual framework by which an architecture of distinctive identity, clarity, and ingenuity is created.
For more information about DXA studio, please visit http://www.dxastudio.com/.
