Dining by Design
Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) is launching their 13th National Tour of “Dining by Design” on March 18th in New York City. Well known designers create gorgeous tablescapes and area restaurants provide food and drink for event participants. This amazing fundraising event will include food and wine pairings at the Table Hop & Taste event, as well as the innovations of design students. For more on Dining by Design, click here. The installation pictured above was designed by David Stark for Benjamin Moore. For more pictures, click here.
3 Must See NYC Restaurant Interiors
NYC-based Vastu Designer, Krissy Stecyk, shares 3 restaurants she considers must visits to check out the interior design.
image via Sarafine
Discovering New York Neighborhoods: NoHo
Krissy, our designer based in NYC, shares some of her favorite places in various New York neighborhoods. Her first stop was, Yorkville… Now she’s on to NoHo!
Discovering New York Neighborhoods: Yorkville
Krissy, our designer based in NYC, shares some of her favorite places in various New York neighborhoods. First stop, Yorkville!
Brian on AT NY!
Vastu Art Director, Brian Petro, recently had his NYC studio featured on Apartment Therapy. Click here for more pics. Congrats Brian – the space looks great!
Places to go | Folks to know – NYC
Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists, presents the fourth annual NY Art Book Fair, October 2-4 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens. Admission to the fair is FREE.
The Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent artist/publishers presenting a diverse range of the best in contemporary art publications.
Check it out!
Places to go | Folks to know – NYC
Yesterday we posted tips on how to mix old and new home furnishing pieces. If you’re in the NYC area and in search of those “old” pieces, our NY-based interior designer, Krissy Stecyk, suggests giving the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market a try.
The flea market it located on West 39th Street between 9th & 10th Avenues and it’s open 9 AM – 6 PM every Saturday and Sunday. Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market includes vendors that offer shoppers antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing, mid-century modern items, and more. The market’s Hell’s Kitchen South location is near the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Times Square.
Places to go | Folks to know – NYC
If you’re in the Big Apple, then you must stop by Serendipity 3 if you haven’t already. Who doesn’t want to end a day (or begin a night out) with an enormous dessert?
Serendipity, most famous for their frozen hot chocolate, also serves up non-chocolate desserts, and a full breakfast, lunch and dinner menu.
225 East 60th Street
between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
New York, NY 10022
Places to go | Folks to know – NYC
Foodies that haven’t yet made it over to Txikito (pronounced chic-kee-toe) should make the trip. Txikito pays homage to the food and cooking techniques of the Basque region in Spain. Where’s Basque you ask?
There it is! Txikito introduced the city of New York to the food from this region and one restaurant reviewer says…
With Txikito, [owners] Raij and Montero show they are masters of using unusual (at least in this country) Spanish ingredients.
Must-Haves: Albondigas, patatas mentaiko, bocata, arraultza
Price to enjoy Txikito: $25 to $50 a person
240 Ninth Avenue | New York NY 10001 | 212-242-4730
In the New York City area and in need of some interior design help? Contact our NYC-based designer, Krissy Stecyk at krissy (at) vastuny (dot) com.
NYC Restaurant Week!
dessert sampler
Going on now and running through July 31st (Saturday’s excluded, Sunday participation optional), Manhattan restaurants are offering some fabulous deals for patrons. Restaurant week started during the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Tim Zagat and others organized the event to get convention participants to sample the best eats the city had to offer. Each participating restaurant signed up to offer a prix-fixe lunch menu. The program was opened to the public and due to the program’s popularity the event grew to offer a prix-fixe dinner option as well.
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