ADORNO Designers at COLLECTIBLE NYC 2025
COLLECTIBLE returns to New York for its second edition, transforming Water Street Projects WSA into a dynamic showcase of contemporary collectible design from September 4-7, 2025. This experimental platform continues to push creative boundaries, bringing together an extraordinary roster of established and emerging talents who are redefining the landscape of functional art. From handcrafted furniture that tells stories of cultural heritage to sculptural objects that challenge conventional beauty, this year’s participants represent a global dialogue between tradition and innovation, functionality and artistry.
The fair’s commitment to showcasing only the highest quality works – unique pieces, bespoke commissions, and limited editions – creates a curated environment where each object reflects the latest currents in contemporary design. These twenty visionary studios and designers, spanning from Brooklyn to Buenos Aires, from Seoul to Sydney, embody COLLECTIBLE’s ethos of discovering the extraordinary within the functional, where every piece serves not just as furniture or object, but as a statement of personal and cultural identity.
304.cage — Rotterdam, Netherlands
304.cage creates objects designed to capture attention and become integral elements of interior spaces. Their distinctive approach combines rough industrial materials with colorful polished details, achieving designs that are both timeless and unique. The studio constantly tests the boundaries of conventional design, prioritizing innovative thinking over simple solutions. This bold material dialogue between raw and refined creates pieces that challenge expectations while maintaining functional integrity.
andykim.global — Brooklyn, NY
Andy Kim operates at the intersection of architecture and urban ecology, creating buildings and artifacts that explore complex relationships within cityscapes. His background as both architect and educator informs a practice focused on meaningful spatial interventions. Kim’s work has gained recognition through exhibitions at prestigious venues including A83 Gallery and AIA Javits Expo, with publications by Princeton University’s Pidgin Press. His approach transforms architectural thinking into tangible objects that reflect the dynamic nature of urban environments.
Around the Studio — Tbilisi, Georgia
Founded in 2021 by Tika Shelia and Ano Jishkariani, Around the Studio operates as an interdisciplinary collective exploring cultural, social, and political themes through collaborative projects. Their practice encompasses object design, installation, and video art, with a focus on transforming materials from collective actions into functional everyday items. By reimagining public symbols as domestic objects, they create dialogues between personal environments and broader societal movements. Their work integrates local Georgian traditions with contemporary issues, encouraging reflection and collective action through design.
Atelier Alz — Montréal, Canada
Atelier Alz has developed a distinctive approach rooted in the creative potential of reclaimed materials, transforming overlooked elements into singular, non-standardized pieces. Rather than simply recycling, they elevate materials by revealing new narratives shaped by time and use, questioning mass production through embracing imperfection and memory. Each creation represents a dialogue between control and chance, between raw material essence and artistic vision. Their philosophy allows form to emerge from intuition and emotion, creating a tension between structure and fluidity that defines their unique identity.
Basia Pruszyńska — New York, NY
Polish designer Basia Pruszyńska creates furniture and products that blend contemporary functionality with deep cultural roots. Drawing inspiration from nature, landscapes, traditional craftsmanship, and Polish folklore, she creates pieces that are both functional and emotionally evocative. Her approach incorporates traditional forms and natural materials, resulting in modern designs firmly rooted in cultural identity. Pruszyńska’s work demonstrates how heritage can inform contemporary practice, creating objects that carry stories and memories into modern living spaces.
bnf studio — Chicago, IL
Founded by Ben Newman and Mary Numair, bnf studio specializes in expressive hardwood furniture that balances sculptural design with meticulous craftsmanship. Newman’s twenty-plus years of fine woodworking experience combines with Numair’s creative direction to produce pieces that feel both architectural and emotionally resonant. Their signature mt. curve collection explores the emotional potential of geometry through generous curves and exaggerated proportions, moving away from linear restraint to embrace softness and contrast. All pieces are designed and built in-house, ensuring complete control over quality while allowing for extensive customization.
Costantini — New York, NY
Since 2002, Costantini has served as a trusted source for custom furniture, objects, and lighting for a global clientele under the direction of founder William C Stuart. Stuart’s background as multimedia artist and sculptor continues to inform the studio’s approach, bridging fine art sensibilities with functional design. With a studio showroom in New York and artisan workshop in Buenos Aires, Costantini connects skilled craftspeople with acclaimed clients worldwide. Their team works across diverse materials including bronze, solid wood, fiberglass, marble, leather, and more, creating bespoke pieces that reflect both artistic vision and technical mastery.
Crina Arghirescu Rogard — Brooklyn, NY
International architect and interior designer Crina Arghirescu Rogard brings a sophisticated European sensibility to her New York-based practice. Her formative years between Bucharest and Milan, combined with training at Milan’s prestigious Politecnico, shaped her aesthetic approach that merges timeless European elegance with luxurious modernity. After working with renowned French interior design firm Charles Zana in Paris, she established herself in New York, joining Adam Tihany’s top-rated firm. Her work reflects an acute appreciation for refinement and artistic diversity, creating spaces that embody both cultural sophistication and contemporary luxury.
Deya — Istanbul, Turkey
Founded in 2023 by Defne Arıkoğlu and Yasmin Karamolla, Deya redefines modern living through bold, joyful creations that seamlessly blend vibrant creativity with meticulous craftsmanship. Designed between London and Istanbul and crafted in Turkey, the brand launched with distinctive mouth-blown glassware celebrating asymmetry and unique imperfections. Deya has since expanded into furniture, offering innovative designs that surprise with unexpected details while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability through eco-friendly packaging and thoughtful production methods. Their work has gained global recognition through collaborations with renowned names including Istanbul Modern Museum and Beymen.
Estudio MAterial — San Francisco, CA
Founded by Mexico City-born artist and designer Damaso Mayer, Estudio Material draws from a unique background spanning industrial design, architecture, and landscape architecture. Mayer’s upbringing between his mother’s organic farm and his father’s metal fabrication facility created a profound appreciation for both organic and manufactured materials. His practice explores often overlooked materials with particular fascination for the raw, found, and industrial, celebrating their authentic forms. Through sustainable practices and material exploration, Estudio Material reimagines conventional design by revealing the beauty and potential inherent in materials’ most genuine states.
Juyong Shim — Seoul, South Korea
Seoul-based designer Juyong Shim explores the structural potential and sensory remnants of everyday objects and components embedded in daily life. His practice involves collecting and disassembling familiar industrial items, reconstructing their materiality and semiotic traces into sculptural compositions that drift between function and non-function. Through this transformative process, each object becomes a scene that opens subtle gaps in perception, inviting viewers to feel, observe, and reflect rather than simply use. Shim’s work proposes a renewed relationship between objects, space, memory, and the senses, uncovering unfamiliar layers within the familiar.
Laura Dominici — Vienna, Austria
Laura Dominici designs what she calls “a slow world” as an alternative approach to contemporary life, dealing with concepts of inefficiency and imagination in her practice. Her one-of-a-kind pieces employ time-consuming techniques rarely used in modern production, creating utopian objects that serve as impulses for personal imagination. Dominici’s approach challenges the speed and standardization of contemporary design culture, instead embracing processes that allow for contemplation and individual expression. Her work invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with objects and time, proposing design as a vehicle for deeper reflection and personal connection.
Lucas Cambier — Toulon, France
Lucas Cambier founded his multidisciplinary design studio in 2022 after five years of design studies in Toulon, working across interior design, industrial design, and 3D imagery with a focus on collectible furniture and objects. His “soft brutalist” approach creates an interplay between geometrical minimalism, constructivism, and organic materiality, resulting in pieces that evoke complex emotional responses. Somewhat monolithic and sculptural in their use of raw materials, his furniture makes gentle yet engaging statements in living spaces. Cambier’s work demonstrates how seemingly opposing design philosophies can be harmoniously integrated to create distinctive contemporary pieces.
Lucie Claudia Podrabska — Prague, Czech Republic
Born in Buenos Aires to Czech parents, Lucie Claudia operates between studios in the Portuguese countryside outside Lisbon and Prague, working as sculptor, designer, and creator of spatial narratives through crystal glass objects. Her practice focuses on designing glassware that brings groove and personality to spaces, transforming the traditional understanding of glass as material into something more expressive and characterful. Podrabska’s bicultural background and geographic mobility inform her approach to creating objects that transcend simple functionality to become elements of spatial storytelling. Her work with crystal glass explores the material’s potential for both optical beauty and emotional resonance.
M’ama edizioni — Faenza, Italy
M’ama edizioni, launched in 2023 by architect Federica, creates exclusive furniture with a distinctly feminine perspective that freely weaves multiple aesthetics with irreverent yet poetic surprises. Federica’s education at London’s Central Saint Martins and specialization in Product Design at ISIA, combined with seven years of interior design experience in London and Los Angeles, inform her unique approach. After opening a design gallery in her hometown of Faenza in 2021, she developed M’ama edizioni as a platform for her creative vision. Her philosophy embraces an overwhelming curiosity and desire for astonishment, creating pieces that challenge conventional expectations while maintaining sophisticated design integrity.
Nitush-Aroosh — Gurgaon, India
Brothers Nitush and Aroosh have developed a new design language characterized by sculptural textures and unique artistic expressions that defy convention through their innovative use of stainless steel. Their environmentally friendly production method employs hydroforming technique instead of traditional casting, using fluid pressure to mold metal into dynamic, organic forms. Following hydroforming, meticulous handwork shapes each surface, imbuing the stainless steel with fluid, tactile qualities that create compelling visual and sensory experiences. Their sculptural furniture, lights, and objects transcend mere functionality to become art pieces that invite tactile exploration through the interplay of light, shadow, texture, and form.
RIA Design Studio — Brooklyn, NY
Founded in 2024 by artist, designer, and architect Tobi Onafeko, RIA Design Studio embodies an Afro-modernist vision merging structural modernist elegance with rich African heritage narratives. Born in the United States and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Onafeko’s diverse background and MA in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh inform his unique approach that transforms spaces into statements of personal heritage and contemporary luxury. RIA’s hand-crafted furniture pays homage to African vernacular forms while embodying modernist principles of form following function and truth to materials, reinterpreted through an African lens. Each sculptural creation captures narratives of memory, culture, and place, appealing to those seeking meaningful connections in their living spaces through the harmonious blend of modernity and tradition.
Romain Basile Petrot — Paris, France
Romain Basile Petrot is an independent designer and architect working across spatial and object design from his Paris base, bringing architectural thinking to his material explorations. A graduate in Architecture with training at the prestigious Studio KO, his practice focuses on material experimentation driven by sensitive, narrative-based design processes. He approaches his objects as architecture, viewing them as buildings where invisible forces shape radical geometries through careful manipulation of form, composition, and materiality. His work with metal sheets explores the material’s physical properties, crafting expressive objects infused with abstraction that bridge the gap between functional design and architectural speculation.
Saturday Yard Work — Adelaide, Australia
SATURDAY YARD WORK, led by Nathan Martin from his Kaurna/Adelaide base, operates at the intersection of sculpture, craft, and functional objects through dedicated material experimentation and process exploration. Martin’s practice embraces unorthodox production methods, seeking to uncover unexpected visual and sensory outcomes manifested in distinctive forms and textures. His experimental and process-driven design ethos celebrates the unconventional, specifically embracing imperfection and the intricate qualities inherent in handmade objects. Through crafting unique pieces that challenge traditional production methods, Saturday Yard Work creates objects that reveal the beauty found in unconventional approaches to making and material manipulation.
Touch with Eyes — Berlin, Germany
TOUCH WITH EYES is a creative duo comprising Alexander Kanygin and Anna Druzhinina, who formed their partnership after finding themselves in new circumstances and locations that prompted their creative union. Working nomadically throughout Europe with a mobile workshop set up in their car, they create work “on the fly” in diverse locations from fields and beaches to parking lots and mountains. Their practice draws inspiration from the surrounding natural world and traces of human life found even in remote corners of Europe, using found materials like discarded wood, shells, and fishing buoys. Through transforming these environmental “treasures,” they give new life, shape, and function to overlooked materials, allowing audiences to experience connections to sea, sun, salt, sand, stones, and earth through their reimagined objects.
Visit COLLECTIBLE NYC 2025
Experience these extraordinary works firsthand at COLLECTIBLE NYC, taking place September 4-7, 2025, at Water Street Projects WSA, located at 180 Maiden Lane, New York 10038. The fair opens to the public Thursday through Sunday, with an exclusive VIP preview on Wednesday, September 3rd for early access to this curated selection of contemporary collectible design.
Ticket reservations are now open. For booking information and detailed scheduling, visit the link here. Don’t miss this singular opportunity to witness how today’s most innovative designers are reshaping our relationship with objects, materials, and the spaces we inhabit.
