VOLTA NY 2016
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST DESIGN SHOW LOUNGE COLLABORATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT
BRIAN FEE
BRIAN@VOLTASHOW.COM
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24, 2016
VOLTA NY, the premiere art fair for emerging international art within primarily solo projects,
partners with the Architectural Digest Design Show in a new array of lounges at PIER 90, from
March 2 – 6, 2016. For their second collaboration, the affiliate fairs tap Fort Makers, Rosie Li Studio,
and VOLK to design the fair's Mezzanine Lounge and the VOLTA Salon with artnet, while Eskayel
and Dane Co. team up to furnish VOLTA NY's inaugural Curated Section Something I Can Feel,
curated by Derrick Adams.
(clockwise from top left): Eskayel & Dane Co.: Flat-Round Stool; VOLK: St. Charles Bench; Rosie Li Studio: Lina 08-light
Shear Chandelier; Fort Makers: Full Circle Ottoman.
Within the exhibition space of Something I Can Feel, Brooklyn design firms Eskayel and Dane Co.
introduce the Flat-Round Stool, the latest newest in their ongoing partnership. These strictly limited
edition stools instill comfort and clever versatility throughout the exhibition's open layout, and all reflect
both designers' covetable signature points: Eskayel's heavy leather patterned seat tops and Dane
Co.'s exposed joinery and half-round profiles in American Hard Maple.
“The nature of the design is kind of a conversation between Andrew [Berman, founder of Dane
Co.] and I and our styles, which are very different but incredibly complimentary,” says Eskayel founder
Shanan Campanaro of the collaboration. “His is minimalist and sturdy and mine is more watery and
nonessential. The work we are making for VOLTA is very tactile, with the component of leather and
the soft edges opposite the angular edges on each side of the stools legs. By adding pattern we are
including an nonessential element to the design that gives the stool a life beyond function.”
At the Mezzanine Lounge — and acting as intimate, adaptable environment for the VOLTA Salon with
artnet — Fort Makers, Rosie Li Studio, and VOLK conceive artisan pieces that reflect their
respective design identities to manifest one beautiful, functional total experience. Inspired by Bauhaus
and the outdoors, Brooklyn Navy Yard-based artist collective Fort Makers anchors the overall
installation with two large Full Circle and Half Circle Ottomans, upholstered with cut-up and
reconstituted canvas painted by co-founder Naomi Clark. Her expressionist brushwork (black and
white for VOLTA NY or in full Technicolor) on new and found fabrics have included massive stage
backdrops for MoMA PS1's Warm Up summer series. Additionally, co-founder Noah James Spencer
accents Clark's seating with a pair of sculptural LED Maple Circle Line Lights, juxtaposing hard lines
with soft ambient glows that will flank the panel discussion wall. RISD graduate Rosie Li channels the
laws of attraction in her tabletop Cluster lamps and hanging all-brass Lina modular lighting fixtures.
Li's lights grace and illuminate the surfaces of Red Hook wood wonderworker Brian Volk-Zimmerman,
who unveils his handcrafted St. Charles Collection for the lounge. VOLK's cocktail and occasional
tables both incorporate bleached or blackened ash veneer with playful accents such as marble tops
and brass or copper details. The St. Charles Daybed and Bench are statement works in solid ash,
each upholstered with abstracted floral patterns developed in collaboration with Los Angeles artist
Kate Wall.
“VOLK and Rosie Li are teaming up at AD Show so it seemed like a natural partnership to me,” notes
the Architectural Design Design Show's Julia Haney Montanez, producer of the emerging MADE
section. “They both have this 'reinvention' of furniture and lighting that is pared down but also exciting
and innovative. Pairing Brian and Rosie with Fort Makers was a great way to marry their streamlined
design with a playful fabric to create a full design trifecta of lighting, furniture and textiles by three
innovative and creative Brooklyn designers. MADE 2016 is all about unexpected collaborations that
create full environments and new collections, and VOLK, Rosie Li, and Fort Makers have definitely
accomplished that at VOLTA NY.”
All pieces are available for purchase or custom order. Visit the designers in the MADE Pavilion at the
15th annual Architectural Digest Design Show, held from March 17 – 20 at Piers 92 & 94 in New
York City, to inquire and acquire a broader range of their respective works, along with 150 of the top
independent designers throughout America. VOLTA NY visitors can learn more at
ADDesignShow.com; enter code 'VOLTA' for $5 off ticket price.
Additionally, three-time VOLTA NY pop-up restaurant Er Baretto, co-helmed by local chefs Sara
Jenkins and Tamara Reynolds, partners with local vintage furniture rental outfit Patina for the 2016
cafe seating. Creative Director Corrin Arasa has operated her studio out of a former garment factory
in Bushwick since 2012, featuring a range from New England Colonial to early 1900s French to
Scandinavian mid-century modern.
PIER 90 can be reached by public transportation via the Eighth Avenue line (E or C trains to 50 th
Street) or from Columbus Circle (1, A, C, B, D trains to 59th Street/Columbus Circle), as well as direct
shuttle between VOLTA NY and Pier 94: The Armory Show – Contemporary. Additionally, PIER 90
is connected by an elevated, covered and heated passageway to Pier 92: The Armory Show –
Modern.
VOLTA was founded in Basel in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta (Chicago), Friedrich Loock (Berlin), and
Ulrich Voges (Frankfurt). VOLTA12 returns to Markthalle in Basel and coincides with Basel Art Week
from June 13 – 18, 2016.
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