Live@ICFF: Last Night’s Parties

Once again, many ICFF revelers started the evening in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden for the annual Opening Night Party.

The artist Jason Polan was there, drawing people for his Every Person in New York project.

It’s hard not to enjoy a party where you can sit in Bertoia chairs around Barnett Newman’s monumental Broken Obelisk.

And the cheese sticks were divine.

Also in the sculpture garden: a preview of how you may feel by ICFF day four.

By 8 o’clock, the garden was getting crowded–time to head downtown!

On the corner of Great Jones and Lafayette Streets, near the new Noho Design District

On Great Jones, Areaware was throwing itself a five-year anniversary party . . .

. . . with tunes by the “street jazz” band Baby Soda . . .

. . . and s’mores by the Jewels of New York.

Hand-torched to order!

Two flights up, Roll & Hill was launching its first collection. (Read more about the new venture in a story in our May issue.)

Not part of the new collection: these bread-loaf lights

A couple doors down, The Future Perfect was presenting new furniture and lighting . . .

. . . including this piece by the lighting designer Alex Randall. Yow.

This porcelain dog is making you verrrrry sleepy…

Bonus party photos: On Friday night, The Conran Shop was hosting a shindig in its new home on the lower level of ABC Carpet & Home.

From left:  Apartment Therapy’s Janel Laban and Aaron Able; Metropolis’s associate art director, Dungjai Pungauthaikan; and Dwell’s editor in chief, Sam Grawe

And on the sofa, Sir Terence Conran himself, speaking with Paulette Cole, the CEO and creative director of ABC Home

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Conran Shop photos: Kristi Cameron