Highlights from Kin & Company s Outdoor Furniture Exhibition Inside~Out
May 12, 2021
A year spent largely indoors changed much for many of us not least our relationship to the outdoors. For Kin & Company founder Kira de Paola, it afforded a little time to consider the potential of the design studio’s outdoor furniture exhibition “Inside~Out,” which debuted in 2019 in Brooklyn’s Vale Park as a casual, experiential alternative to traditional design fairs. “It was strange that we had planned a show specifically around spurring opportunities for social engagement and connection,” de Paola says, “and suddenly being around each other was verboten. The whole premise of the show became poignant.”
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A rendering of the Ol Ball and Chain swing set from Micah Rosenblatt, which will be at the Brooklyn show Inside-Out in the Garden. More than 20 designers and studios are in the mix. Duyi Han via The New York Times.
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.- In 2019, Joseph Vidich and Kira de Paola, who are metalworkers, first cousins and co-founders of the New York design studio Kin & Co., organized a show on a Brooklyn promenade of creative outdoor furniture, called Inside-Out. They didnt expect to see so many visitors testing the displays and gabbing with strangers, so they planned a sequel for 2020 that paid attention to social interaction but had to rethink the event when the pandemic hit.
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