Pack This

Our Platinum Pentaward winning bottle in the pages of The Package Design Book!

My Friend John

One of the great perks of a creative profession are the interesting friends you make along the way.

John Robshaw was my roommate at Pratt Institute. He was a painter then, but has since become a very famous fabric designer. I was so happy to see his apartment on the cover of Elle Decor last month. You just can't fake having an interesting life. John travels the world over sourcing his printed fabrics and his apartment is filled with all of the beautiful objects and art he has collected along the way.

Of course, John and I have been having a creative dialogue for a long time. My homes are filled with his fabrics, and I was very happy to see my Walnut Bowl on his coffee table and Eclipse lamp prototype in his kitchen!

Look What I Made

We're loving the plaid-on-plaid styling of Harry's full-page spread in Interior Design's Market Tabloid. What better way to show off his latest creation, the Paperwork Lantern, a combination of low-tech papier maché and high-tech LEDs.

Paperwork Lantern

As seen in The New York Times, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012.

By Arlene Hirst: Harry Allen deals in twisted household archetypes. The New York-based designer's continuing Reality series includes a fruit bowl cast from a bunch of bananas, a coat hook shaped like a hand, and a roller skate playing the role of a door stop. For his latest project, Paperwork lanterns for Hive, he has transformed an old barn lantern into a ghostly light fixture. Cast in papier-mâché and mounted on black or chrome steel, the collection includes a table lamp, floor lamp, and chandelier, all designed to hang from hooks attached to an armature. The lights are illuminated with LED Bulbs. A single lantern costs $350. Information: (888) 889-9005 or designbyhive.com

Shed in Casa Vogue Brasil

FRAME Lighting Reports

Check out FRAME #87 to see the latest lighting designs, including Paperwork Table Lamp for Hive.

We are happy to announce that Hive will be launching a new lighting design as part of the Paperwork series at Maison Objet in September. We'll keep you posted!

Natural Warmth

Paperwork featured in Inside Out, an Australian based home life magazine.

Center Stage

Check out Harry's Q&A with Beauty Packaging, featured in this month's issue.

Plaza Deco

Harry's apt. (above Harry Allen Design studio) featured in Plaza Deco.

HGTV Interview

Check out Harry's interview with Judith Mackin on HGTV.ca.

Hand Hooks in SoFo

Our Hand Hooks featured in Swedish magazine, SoFo!

Home Decor Trends

Our LOT Dining Chair and Banana Bowl were recently featured in Homedec. Homedec is a quarterly magazine published in Malaysia. 

LOT IN TIMES TODAY

Our LOT collection for NDT Brazil is featured in the Home section of the NY Times today. Read the story here.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HARRY ALLEN

Or at least part of it. Check out the interview Harry did with Living Etc.

Shiro Kuramata

Harry's piece on a forgotten icon for W Magazine - "Design Hits, Revisited".



Designer Harry Allen believes that Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata (1934–91)—who in reality was more unloved than merely forgotten—has been overlooked because his favored mediums (mostly wire and Lucite) are out of fashion. “He had a great sense of experimentation and playfulness, and was a master of rethinking materials,” says Allen. “Why shouldn’t a chair [above] be made out of metal mesh?” Allen also cherishes his Kuramata acrylic vases, which he bought late one night at a museum in Tokyo. “I’ve only put flowers in them a couple of times,” he says. “They really don’t need to be accessorized.

By Mark Ellwood
May 2011

Spasso Mascot

Our blue-chrome Bank in the Form of a Pig is frequently at risk of theft by customers at one of the "impossible-to-get table" restaurants in New York City, Spasso! Read the article here!

BANG WINS FIFI !

The Fifi Awards, an annual event sponsored by the Fragrance Foundation, honors the fragrance industry's creative achievements. It is basically the Oscars of the fragrance world. Harry Allen Design is honored that our bottle design for Marc Jacobs BANG won a Fifi for Best Packaging of the Year in the Men's Luxe category!

NYSD Time capsule

A few summers ago, I was interviewed by New York Social Diary in my East Village apartment and studio. I didn't blog yet so I did not share this. It still lives on their web site and is a nice time capsule. The apartment is newly renovated so much has changed.

Read the full interview here

Beastly Things

New York Spaces was all animals this month.

We love being featured in the same issue as our Areaware pals Salvor Studio.

Gift of Greed

Check out the gift ideas inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins in the LA Times blog. Saving a little here and there always adds up.