New York Tales: How ya doin’
Not good.
For some reason which escapes us there are no tables in the press room.
That’s NO TABLES IN THE PRESS ROOM AT A FURNITURE TRADE SHOW.
And to think we complained in Milan once when the beer in the press room fridge was too warm!!!
Is there not a producer out there who could sponsor a few for next year.
Vitra? Kartell? Lampert?
The conditions here are worse than at the Magdeburger Volksstimme or any other village rag.
Oh, how we yearn for our asymmetric Eiermann II table…..

As the logical next step in the War on Terror, tables have been now been banned across America....The (smow)blog office in New York.




May 18th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
[...] may be no tables in the press room, but there are plenty to be found at [...]
May 24th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
[...] however, first attracted our attention to Miller was his Tint tables. And that independent of our problems here at ICFF. In Milan one of the products that made us stop and smile was the Trattoria Chairs by Jasper [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 9:36 am
[...] as we sat in Leipzig blithly assuming tables would be freely available in NYC, we were planning watching tables [...]
October 15th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
[...] not sure if we mentioned it in our posts from NYC, but one of the weak points of the ICFF is the dearth of tables. That might be a way to wake the organisers interest. Ideally the table should be large enough to [...]