Nirmada: Interior Design in New York City

Our favorite quirky, tall, and all around colorful designer-guy, Karim Rashid, is now curating and exhibit on …radiators?? I admit, I can’t live without my two Kone vacuums, (one on each side of the apartment) but radiators? This could be the answer to my most perplexing NYC design dilemma…

"honey" by Caleido

So I headed over to the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) to check out their current exhibition – Totally Rad: Karim Rashid Does Radiators. Selected from over 300 designs, the exhibition features approximately 30 steam-heat designs in production today. All of the designers and manufacturers aim to re-examine this everyday object and offer a fresh design perspective. The radiators, while retaining their functionality as heaters, are beautifully crafted and intelligently designed, serving both visual and practical needs in the domestic interior.

It’s an amazing collection. From Gruppo Ragaini comes a radiator that holds and warms pillows. Once they’re toasty, you just take them out and throw them on the sofa.

Whenever I am in the UK I LOVE that everyone has radiators that can hold towels in the bathroom.

One of our favorites in this exhibit is shaped like a shower curtain.

We also liked the one made from green squares, like tiles — fill a wall with as many as you’d like and use them to create interesting patterns.

The exhibit runs through May 17 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.