400 Years Later - Cite goes Dutch

A satellite ICFF exhibition surveys Dutch furniture and product design and paints a portrait of the Netherlands as a designed and designing nation.

New York, New York – Opening on May 16, in conjunction with the International Contemporary

Furniture Fair and New York City’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of New

Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company, 400 Years Later - Cite Goes Dutch - will present everything from furniture and tabletop objects to carpets and jewelry by 23 Dutch emerging designers. Hosted by the CITE showroom through June 14, the exhibition is curated by Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew in collaboration with CITE, Wabnitz Editions Ltd and Josée Lepage. The products on display will draw an outline of the contemporary design coming out of, and  shaped by, the unique climate of the densely populated Netherlands, whose designers grow up below sea level under heavy skies and in an environment that, historically and by geographical necessity, has been intricately designed – from cities to landscape.