Thoughts

Variable, Teknion’s new family of multipurpose chairs, has a fresh palette of twelve (12) colors designed by Suzanne Tick, Creative Director of Teknion Textiles.  The palette was developed at Tick’s studio, where the new color story emerged alongside the development of new fabrics from Teknion Textiles, as well as carpet and other materials designed in the studio. This yielded a robust palette that is relevant for the contemporary built environment.

The Variable chair is intended for a broad market, but mostly for the Education and Corporate segments, where the desire for branding through color is very strong. 
Looking at the current state of art, fashion, and design, Tick was able to distill a pertinent palette of colors for the Variable chair that works well with school and brand colors. Rather than focusing on primary brights, Tick reveals a more sophisticated and refined palette for the marketplace through utilizing saturated secondary and tertiary colors. These refreshing colors coordinate well with today’s interiors of layered materials and textured planes.

Tick’s vision for this new palette also stems from an evaluation of the industry’s existing chair market, which illuminated the need for more warm and cool neutral finishes in the marketplace. By developing a gradation of neutrals in addition to colors, the Variable finish offering is broad: 3 shades of grey; 2 shades of taupe; 5 current colors which include Vermillion, Orange, Teal, Blue, and Deep Verde; and a pure black and white. This range offers many finish options for the A&D and Facilities community, working in conjunction with the Variable large model and style offering to have broad appeal. The upholstery options from Teknion Textiles further increase the offering. Polyurethanes and action fabrics are ideal for education or food service areas, while the Variable collection can also be used in more Corporate areas such as training and conference through the use of higher end fabrics.

Teknion is also adding new plastic shell colors to both the Nami and Volume chair finish offerings to update the palettes for today’s interiors. These color palettes were updated by Suzanne Tick, Creative Director of Teknion Textiles. The Nami chair & stools have three new colors in addition to its already classic palette of Storm White, Lunar Grey, Ebony, and Fearless Red. Tick has added Light Grey, Dark Taupe, and Deep Ocean to further round out this sophisticated palette and make it even more appropriate for Corporate and other higher end areas such as Hospitality. The Volume chair, which is a high-density stacker, has an expanded range of five (5) new colors in addition to the four (4) existing ones. Joining Storm White, Latte, Espresso, and Ebony are Light Grey, Medium Grey, Deep Ocean, Crimson, and Solar Yellow to offer more fashion forward colors as well as more cool tones, which were not present in the original palette. Both palettes strive to provide customers with fresh choices in their finish selections that coordinate with other building finishes.

When you specify Suzanne Tick flooring products for Tandus Centiva for a project in education, you will be helping contribute to Publicolor’s Summer Design Studio. Suzanne Tick, Inc. and Tandus Centiva have each committed to donate $0.10/sq. yd. from these sales, totaling a $0.20/sq. yd. donation. With over 40 STI designs to choose from, your K-12 and higher education specifications and purchases will positively impact the lives of Publicolor students.

Publicolor is a youth development not-for-profit that has a multi-day, multi-year program continuum, which uniquely engages disaffected students in their education. Their gateway program empowers students through commercial painting and an applied learning model to transform their institutional looking schools into warm, welcoming student-centric environments. Other programs involve students in planning and preparing for college and career, while teaching strong and transferable work habits. The Summer Design Studio teaches at-risk teens literacy and math through product design. S.A.T. preparation and design classes are held on Pratt Institute’s campus so students can experience the reality of college, while their afternoons are spent painting under-resourced but vital neighborhood facilities.

You can now see Suzanne’s latest talk HIS & HERS at the next Work Design Magazine’s webinar which will take place on Tuesday, August 5 from 2:00-3:00 PM EDT.  The event is sponsored by Tandus Centiva.

The presentation — His and Hers: Design in Post-Gender Society — is an observation of design in today’s western culture and how architecture, fashion, design, and art are seen through the lens of these new gender embodiments. Now more than ever, we’re living in a time of gender revolution, and our increasingly post-gender society is moving beyond gendered identities, toward a state of inclusion of new and different perspectives. Starting with the traditional office — once the exclusive domain of men, reflected accordingly in mid-20th century workplace — Suzanne will show us, with compelling imagery, how artists, architects, and designers are working within this discourse to promote change.

TIckets available here

LMNOP, a volunteer-based organization promoting professional development in the architecture and design community, welcomes Suzanne Tick  as featured speaker. 
 
The event will be on May 22nd 2014
6pm – 8:30pm
 
Location:
Teknion NY Showroom
641 6th Ave, 2ND floor
NY, NY 10011
 
Ticket are $50 @ the door
$40 (In advance)

We are excited to announce that “Entangled Light” by Suzanne Tick and Mary Wallis, will be exhibited at the NY design week exhibition Wallpaper* Handmade with Jaguar in New York. Fresh from Milan's Salone del Mobile, the award winning exhibition dedicated to the marriage of craftsmanship and design, arrives in New York. Wallpaper* Handmade with Jaguar offers an avant-garde take on contemporary design, artistry and technology. 

“Entangled Light” is an interwoven neon light fixture that has a dynamic interaction of subtle color shift, using a striation of three color temperatures. The tubes were hand woven into place, using a new technique developed by Tick and Wallis that incorporated their strengths: Tick’s weaving expertise and Wallis’ lighting skills.

16-31 May 2014

345 Meatpacking, West Retail

345 West 14th St. New York, NY

wallpaper.com/HandmadeNYC