Design districts have become as much a part of the modern metropolis as restaurant rows or theater districts. However inevitable they seem today, design districts are a recent invention. Whereas traditional design centers had their backs turned to everyone but professionally credentialed visitors, places like the Design Districts of Miami and Helsinki, or Brera in Milan, embrace all walks of urban life — whether an individual visitor has a practitioner’s license or a passion for design or even the slightest curiosity about the subject. That would have not been possible when cities were considered more fearful places or before the internet broke down the barriers of to-the-trade. The relative newness of design districts means that, in many places, they are still taking form. New York City’s NoMad neighborhood illustrates the phenomenon. Its purveyors of innovative furnishings, lighting and materials have added dimension to an active street scene ignited by the opening of the Ace Hotel only in 2009. And just last week, Poliform joined NoMad’s cast of design-district characters with a two-story flagship, the first of its kind in the United States. Comprising 10,000 square feet overlooking a prominent corner of Madison Avenue not far from ... , Architizer Editors, read more Architizer http://ift.tt/2dOUXD2
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