Stepping in as curator for a new exhibition with Outsider Art Fair, the master of flower power hand-picked nearly 200 works for the show in New York City
Design fairs, funnily enough, do not always take place at particularly inviting (or design-forward) venues. After more than a year of canceled events, I can’t say I’m exactly itching to return to the dark, endless halls at New York’s Javits Center, Milan’s Fiera, or Paris’s Parc des Expositions, where I’ve easily clocked five hours of appointments without glancing a single window to the outdoors. But last weekend, as things began to inch back toward “normal,” whatever that may be, I found myself at another sort of design fair, agua fresca in hand, surveying new furniture, lighting, textiles, and accessories, amid blazing sun and crashing waves at architect Alfonso Quiñones’s Casa Naila in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.