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Join award-winning designers Charles Pavarini and Randall Pavarini of Pavarini Design for an engaging discussion on how lighting—both aesthetically compelling and technically sophisticated—can become the defining element of a project that seamlessly blends healthcare and hospitality design. 

Join the Alumni Council on Wednesday, June 3, for a panel on how sustainable design can contribute to better health and sleep.

Join Christine Heller, senior lighting designer of Focus Lighting, and Nancy Mah of Nancy Mah Design, veteran interior designer as they explore the essential partnership between lighting and interiors. 

Join renowned color expert and author of Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers, Linda Holtzschue, as she explores the importance of lighting in interior design. The discussion will focus on how color is seen, the relationship of color surfaces to light sources, and the absolute need for lighting design on every project, no matter how large or small.

Join Lori Weitzner, Principal and Creative Director of Lori Weitzner and an award-winning U.S. textile and wallcovering designer, for an inspiring exploration into the world of color. 

Join us for a hands-on pattern-making workshop led by Dan Funderburgh, featured in Sketching the Surface: Exploring the New York School of Interior Design Archives and Contemporary Pattern Design.

Join curators and designers Arpie Gennetian, Anne Regan, and Andrea Lacalamita of StudioExhibit.A for an exclusive tour of NYSID's new exhibition, Sketching the Surface: Exploring the New York School of Interior Design Archives and Contemporary Pattern Design.

Inspired by the early 20th-century avant-garde Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), students in Modern Architecture and Design II taught by faculty member Warren Ashworth designed their own “dream objects.”

Sketching the Surface: Exploring the New York School of Interior Design Archives and Contemporary Pattern Design explores the legacy of 20th-century pattern designs from the NYSID Archives—fabric, rugs, carpets, wall coverings, tiles—created by Joann Nelsen, Joe Martin, Joseph Grusczak, and Inez Croom.

In 2005, Judy Frater established the first program of design education for artisans in the arid desert region of Kutch, India. It was the culmination of 35 years of working with artisans in Kutch. Frater recently published Artisans by Design to tell the story of co-learning and co-creating the program through the experiences of 19 participating artisans. Each artisan profiled created a textile for the book.

Today, when computer imagery is ubiquitous, there remain a number of contemporary architects and designers who persist in drawing interiors by hand. Their drawings enhance the designers’ powers of observation. They promote the understanding of scale and proportion.

The NYSID India Study Abroad Exhibit presents the extraordinary journeys of eight students and six faculty members who explored six cities in Northern and Western India: New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai.

This exhibition highlights the work of noted botanical photographer Larry Lederman from his new book, Du Pont Gardens of the Brandywine Valley.

Our Practice: Eleven Women in Interior Design, organized by Darling Green, presents a selection of prominent, women-led, contemporary interior design studios from around the world. This exhibition—focused on residential design— marks these distinct voices that stand on the shoulders of trailblazing women designers who defined and evolved the profession.