NYC X DESIGN, 2025
NYCxDESIGN 2025: The Creative Pulse of the City That Shapes It All
From the Lower East Side to Long Island City, NYCxDESIGN 2025 returns with its signature blend of bold innovation, global talent, and unmistakable New York energy. This year’s edition spotlights a new wave of material experimentation, immersive installations, and collaborations that blur the boundaries between art, architecture, and product design.
At The Fluxx, we’ve curated the most compelling launches, standout studios, and design destinations worth knowing — whether you're exploring IRL or from afar. From Calico Wallpaper x Lee Broom, to independent galleries rewriting the rules of collectible design, here’s what to watch.
Editors Picks
Psychogeography presnted by Avram Rusu, Token and Wallpaper Projects
Design studios Avram Rusu, Token and Wallpaper Projects, presented Psychogeography. At its heart, this installation collaboration is about dialogue — between artists, between materials, between ideas. Friends and mutual admirers, the two studios share a deep respect for process, intuition, and the expressive potential of the organic world — its forms, rhythms, and unpredictable intelligence.
Psychogeography originated in 1950s Paris with Guy Debord, the creator of the avant-garde group Lettrist International. Debord defined it as "the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." This installation channels that spirit — inviting the viewer to wander, discover, and reorient.
Sam Klemick, Site Unseen
Sam exhibited a carved sculptural stool with a bow, for Site Unseen with AvroKos. Furniture and object designer Sam Klemick, carries a deep love for textiles into woodworking, an instinct shaped by a lineage of quilters, sewers, and carpenters. Following 15 years in fashion, she came to furniture, teaching herself to turn, carve, and sculpt. What began as an exploration of wood became a dialogue between disciplines and mediums.
Photo: Krista Schlueter
M.Pei Studio X Colony Group
M.Pei Studio debuted its new furniture collection Silver Hours at The Independents by Colony group exhibition. Founded and curated by Jean Lin, Colony is a community of independent furniture, lighting, textiles and objects designers, coming together on a New York City stage to celebrate American design with an international audience.
Lee Broom x Calico Wallpaper
Lee Broom Debuted ‘Overture’: A dramatic new wallpaper collaboration in partnership with Calico Wallpaper.
In a theatrical fusion of sculpture, illusion, and wall covering, British designer Lee Broom’s designs marks his first-ever wallpaper and venture into this design world.
Lucas Recchia
Brazilian Lucas Recchia, trained as an architect before launching his career as a designer in 2018. He quickly garnered national attention as the first Brazilian designer to develop innovative glass techniques in furniture design. At this years show, he showcased a stunning cast-bronze bench.
Photo: Joe Kramm
David Weeks Studio
Lighting brand David Weeks Studio presented their latest lighting collection, ‘Archer’ in their Brooklyn showroom.
‘Genre-defining, gravity-defying, statement-making minimalism.’
Sixpenny
Furniture brand Sixpenny opened its Dumbo loft showcasing its furniture pieces. The Loft is a physical manifestation of the Sixpenny spirit. The sun-drenched, airy space houses one-of-a-kind pieces, meticulously crafted by artisans from the finest natural materials on the planet—Italian, Brazilian, Turkish, and Iranian stone, solid wood, and exquisite natural and recycled fabrics.
Ladies and Gentlemen Studio
Ladies & Gentlemen Studio is a bi-coastal based design studio operating between Seattle and Brooklyn, founded in 2010, by Dylan Davis & Jean Lee. They displayed the ‘Foreshadow Table Lamp’ a stunning light covered in perforated metal.
According to the designers, this is the first of a series inspired by Maholy-Nagy’s light modulators, where light and shadow are brought alive by a series of perforated layers projecting an array of moire patterns that extend into the space beyond.
Heako Studio
Heako Studio presented a curated selection of sculptural lighting at design fair Shelter, by Afternoon Light.
Hea Ko, is a Seoul-born artist now based in New York City, specialises in crafting unique design experiences within spaces. Drawing inspiration from architecture and geometry, Hea Ko crafts elegant artworks and objects that seamlessly blend tradition with modernity
Cuff Studio presents: Within at Wanted
Cuff Studio premiered their new collection Within at Wanted. The Within collection was born from a place of deep self-assurance—an understanding that curiosity, risk, and exploration lead to the most profound creative satisfaction. It is a reflection of Cuff's journey, instincts, and their trust in the design process.
Ries Studio
Ries studio was founded in Buenos Aires in 2016, by Marcos Altgelt and Tasio Picollo. Driven by the curiosity to explore different materials and techniques,through a collective vision, combining processes linked to craftsmanship and industry. Here the studio displayed a selection of cast-metal furniture from moulds made with grass. A colllection that elevates the experience of everyday living.
Photo: Ben DeHaan