Architectural Digest Home Design Show 2012
I am pleased to announce that I will be participating in the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York City. I will be debuting 6 new pieces including the Curved Glass Hall Table
If you would like complimentary tickets please send me an email.
Architectural Digest Home Design Show 2012
March 22-25 Pier 94 New York City
55th Street at 12th Ave
Thursday -0Saturday 10am – 7pm Sunday 10am – 6pm
By Nico Yektai -New York based designer/maker Nico Yektai opened the doors to his Hamptons studio in 1995 after completing the MFA program at the School For American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The rigorous technical training complimented his background in Art History, which he studied, at Hobart College in Geneva NY. Yektai has synthesized this background into a singular style that has gained him national attention. Visit nicoyektai.com for more information
Tables With Glass
I am currently building a new table which will feature a glass top. I wanted to take a moment to visit my previous tables. The new table is at a formative moment and I want to make sure that I will be pushing new ground!
My tables have demonstrated a progression:
The first tables that I designed took advantage of the clear nature of glass to reveal the complex movement of the structure below the table.
I revisited the Glass Hall Table format and demonstrated a different approach to the wooden structure.
Glass Hall Table
Maple and Glass 35″H x 54″W x 15″D
I began to think about ways to bring the glass into the composition. I used tow moments to embrace and wrap the ends of the glass in wood. This approach started to make the glass an integral part of the composition, not just a functional surface.
Cocktail Table
Sapele and Glass 20″H x 62″W x 32D
The progression continued with the cocktail table. I used a singular moment to bring the leg and stretcher overt the tables surface.
Curved Dovetail Console Table
Sapele and Glass 38″H x 70″W x 15″D
This is a bit out of order,but in terms of progression it is next. I now have taken the step to have the glass cut to a unique shape. The result is that the glass becomes part of the composition in a different way. I felt that this piece was very successful and i am feeling emboldened to pursue a larger table with a piece of shaped glass.
Pedestal Table #9
MAple and Glass 30″H x 20″W x 20″D
By Nico Yektai -New York based designer/maker Nico Yektai opened the doors to his Hamptons studio in 1995 after completing the MFA program at the School For American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The rigorous technical training complimented his background in Art History, which he studied, at Hobart College in Geneva NY. Yektai has synthesized this background into a singular style that has gained him national attention. Visit nicoyektai.com for more information
Mirror With Drawers- One and Two
I have started work on two new versions of my Mirror With Drawers series. I thought I would take a moment to examine where I have been as part of my process of determining how to evolve the series. The exploration was born while I was co-teaching the fall concentration at the Penland craft school in North Carolina with sculptor Joël Urruty. We brought furniture designer Peter Harrison down to give the students a different perspective on technique and creativity. Pete fabricated a small box out of Baltic Birch plywood during a demonstration to the class. The box was kicking around the shop until I took it and incorporated it into the first mirror with drawer.
I wrapped the box in Bubinga veneer after cutting the end of the box to give it an unusual angle more in keeping with my design sense. The rest of the piece is made of cherry and ash. the two woods highlight the shifting overlap that is characteristic of my work. The ends of the cherry boards end in decorative dovetails. This treatment of dovetails is quite unique and becomes a central part of the composition. Another version of unusual dovetails appear on the sculpted drawer front.
A few years ago I revisited the format with a slightly different approach. The first piece gained a lot of attention with the drawer being at the core of the experience. I have always liked to overlap parts so it seemed natural to introduce a second drawer. This time I used a single color of wood for the shifting frame. This field of dark, oxidized, sapele set up a perfect contrast with the yellow shimmer of the avodire veneer of the drawer boxes. The drawers became even more interactive as they open in radically different directions.
Mirror With Two Drawers
Sapele, Avodire and Mirror 72″H x 15″W x 15″D
View Piece. Mirror with Two Drawers
By Nico Yektai -New York based designer/maker Nico Yektai opened the doors to his Hamptons studio in 1995 after completing the MFA program at the School For American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The rigorous technical training complimented his background in Art History, which he studied, at Hobart College in Geneva NY. Yektai has synthesized this background into a singular style that has gained him national attention. Visit nicoyektai.com for more information
