Bright Young Things | Tools at Schools - NYTimes.com
The biggest surprise of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, which took place last month at the Javits Center in New York, wasn’t the latest objet by a global superstar. It was an amazingly polished collection of classroom furniture that was designed by a group of eighth graders. The project, Tools at Schools (which even won the Editor’s Award for Best Design School, an honor usually reserved for college-level institutions showing work at the fair), was initiated by Aruliden, a New York-based design consultancy, at the School at Columbia University, an independent school whose students include the children of Columbia’s faculty as well as children from the neighborhood. Tools at Schools started when Rinat Aruh, a partner [...]
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