Steve is the founder and principal of NOBELINKS, a consulting practice specializing in the luxury markets for home furnishings and interior design, worldwide. His capabilities include strategic planning for market creation and development, penetration enhancement and channel/distribution expansion, and overall consulting on brand building. He is a member of The Luxury Marketing Council, and is also co-founder and Chairman of The Luxury Home Alliance, established in New York as a salon for innovative marketing collaborations. Steve’s vision and wide-ranging network of professionals enables him to synthesize the business of design, and impart valuable guidance to designers, marketers and others in the market for luxury at home.
Interior Designers are continuously inspired by people and places, and their own passion to create. Design in New York; Art, Architecture and Interiors was last week an intimate experience for a select few interior designers to arouse their creativity while enriching their profession -- and what better place to experience the best of the best than in New York City - the world’s fusion of design and business.
Inspired. We took the time to take that walk together; to find what only a few New Yorkers find inspiring behind the spectacular scenes.
Provenance inspires. We started where it all started; New York’s best examples of significant architecture and decoration during the “Gilded Age.” Design’s origins matter - where things come from - when periods of time brought forth Beaux Arts, Art Deco and Modernism.
Inspired by romance and optimism, these new beginnings formed the manifesto for modern design, and all conspired to enliven the urban mix that is New York.
Private access inspires. Before the doors opened to the public, we were hosted by the gracious director to the precious paintings of the Frick Collection that reveal an intimacy between the Old Master artists, their subjects, Mr. Frick’s inspired collecting and his marvelous mansion designed by one of the great Beaux Arts architects. The universal nature of the art in this masterpiece of interior design and architecture justly inspires visual vocabulary for all good design.
Our private preview of ‘Twentieth Century Decorative Arts and Design’ by Christie’s Auctioneer and Head of Sale thoroughly represented the value and provenance of the objects featured in the sale, including Nakashima, Eames, and Prouve, whose designs we saw later, after lunch in The Rainbow Room high above Rockefeller Center, exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art.
Perspective inspires. Proficient observers, designers see what others don’t see. Their peripheral vision discovers pattern and color in architectural details, materials and all things artful, splendid. And some of the finest from “The First Fifty Years: Post Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism,” is in MOMA’s painting and sculpture from the permanent collection, especially within the style progression from Cezanne, through Kandinsky, Pollock, deKooning and Rothko.
"I had very high expectations, and you exceeded them" - Everything was interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking, varied, educational, and "fun"... touched on all our senses, to be sure. -- Connie McCreight ASID.
There's more to this story, coming later, but in the mean time ..
Inspired? What does New York do to you?
