Starting next Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, You’ll be able to take 15% off all new orders from Herman Miller (plus free in-home delivery within the metro area).

So here are the highlights:

• Up to 80% off list price on a bunch of items (which ones specifically I don’t know)
• Credit cards only! Amex, Visa and MasterCard
• From 10-6Pm tomorrow (Friday) and from 11-5Pm on Saturday
• Address is 766 SixthAvenue (corner of 25th St)

If you do happen to make the sale and snag some great deals, let us know what you got!

Needless to say, Vastu’s a little happy about this. Good work New York, and congratulations!

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.

About DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is one of the nation’s largest supporters of direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventive education for those at risk. Supporters of DIFFA come from all fields of fine design and the visual arts, including: architecture, fashion design, interior design, photography and consumer product design.  DIFFA has mobilized the immense resources of the design communities and granted over $38 million to hundreds of AIDS service organizations nationwide.

image via Sarafine

Lure Fish Bar | 142 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 | 212.431.7676

This subterranean Soho gem makes diners feel miraculously transported dockside in St. Tropez. As described by Frank Bruni of the New York Times, “It’s décor cunningly invokes the interior of an oversized yacht – you can almost imagine the ocean breeze streaming through the dining room.” Think high-gloss wood, leather upholstery, semi-circular booths, and portholes (fortunately without the kitsch!) and you’ll begin to understand the inspiration behind Lure’s interior design. And the restaurants seafood menu doesn’t disappoint either!

image via Archi-Tourist

Morimoto | 88 10th Avenue New York, NY 10011 | 212.989.8883

When Masaharu Morimoto, star of television’s Iron Chef, decided to open a restaurant in NYC, he chose world renowned architect Tadao Ando to design the space. Guests are welcomed into the restaurant through flaps of persimmon-red cloth, the world’s largest Japanese noren curtain, set against the industrial façade of austere steel and brick. The interior is designed to evoke Morimoto’s East meets West menu. Ando’s signature material, concrete, is most notably present in the staircase that leads from the main dining level, down to the bar and lounge area. A wall made of 17,000 illuminated waterbottles steals the show. Interesting angles, contrasting surfaces, and a rippling tentlike ceiling abound in the open, spacious 13,000 square foot space. Diners at the sushi bar have the best view into the open kitchen where guests can watch Morimoto and his team make magic. When visiting Morimoto, be sure to check out the restrooms located on the lower level – the high tech toilets are unbelievable!

image via The Noshery

The Brasserie | 100 E. 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 | 212.751.4840

Originally designed by Philip Johnson, after a fire ravaged the Brasserie in 1995, owners contracted
Diller + Scofidio to redesign the space located in Mies van der Rohe’s famed Seagram Building. The new designers said of the project: “The prospect of redesigning one of New York’s legendary restaurants in one of the most distinguished modernist buildings was as inviting as it was daunting. The architecture of the new restaurant respectfully challenges many of the tenets of modernism”. Wood, terrazzo, tile and glass materials serve structural, spatial and functional components. The windowless restaurant, lodged in the stone base of the modernist glass building, plays with the idea of light and vision, including a monitor over the bar that displays live images from the street on which the arrival of all newcomers is announced to those in the dining room. And newcomers certainly do make an entrance, as they are ushered into the dining area down a long staircase of theatrically gradual proportions that prolong their descent. Diller + Scofidio had large shoes to fill when redesigning this space, and they certainly managed to do so by creating a unique and interesting space in which to dine.

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!

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!

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.