Li Edelkoort to receive the inaugural Larsen Textile Award during a weekend of programs at LongHouse Reserve

Sat, Sep 21 - Sun, Sep 22  2024

LongHouse Reserve, 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton, NY

The award recognizes Li’s numerous contributions to the global design community, including her establishment of New York Textile Month.

In the weekend of September 21-22, 2024, LongHouse Reserve will host Li Edelkoort for talks, book signings, and the inaugural Larsen Textile Award. The award recognizes Li’s numerous contributions to the global design community, including her establishment of New York Textile Month.

September 21, 2024, 2-5 PM

On Saturday, September 21, 2024, from 2:00-5:00pm, LongHouse Reserve will host Li Edelkoort for a talk and book signing. Including the following presentations:

RE-RUG: 2025 Rugs & Interiors
Guests and design enthusiasts are invited to hear about the RE-RUG revolution taking interiors by storm, livening up even tiny spaces with the most daring of artistic expressions. This visually inspiring presentation bears witness to the whirlwind of textiles, yarns and colours emerging for flooring – a school of art for art’s sake. The renowned design forecaster Li Edelkoort has researched numerous ideas to curate a selection of stunning examples for the future. In contrast to our troubled era, rugs are back in art and design as an aesthetic antidote. If the rug can be considered a key reflection of culture, it is conveying with a sense of urgency the need to come together and rejoice in what is human and convivial, that which brings us together and ignites empathy. The rug as manifest!

PROUD SOUTH: Fashion, Art & Photography from the Global South
A mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colorful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling and art, Li Edelkoort will present emerging and established talents from wide and far, illustrating that the axis of global creativity has indeed dramatically shifted. Edelkoort has investigated multiple themes that connect sensational talents that hail from Latin America, Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. Not defined by maps, hemispheres or the rigid fashion system of the north, PROUD SOUTH represents an emancipated international movement. Style, materials, motifs and colours are therefore innovated in myriad ways. Yet the power of the south also leads by example, teaching the important lessons of de-colonialization, inclusivity, ecology, spiritual harmony and grace.

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September 22, 2024, 3-5 PM

On Sunday, September 22, 2024, 3:00-5:00pm, the LongHouse Reserve will host Li Edelkoort for the inaugural Larsen Textile Award, as well as a book signing and the following presentations:

Talking Textiles: Creativity & Awareness
We are currently experiencing a return to textiles and their cultural expressions in art, fashion, design and interiors; now, more than ever, it’s time to talk textiles. Li Edelkoort will take the audience on an inspiring visual journey looking at how fashion starts to focus on fabric, how interiors brings back upholstery and how students reach out to the loom. There is a renewed interest in material processes and a desire to understand what products are made of. Companies and graduates alike are reintroducing arts and crafts and the recycling of scraps to not let anything go to waste. Others focus on quilting, prints, upholstery, tufting, haute couture, 3D printing and technology, industrial production, natural dyeing, anthropology, archeology, activism and much, much more.TALKING TEXTILES is also an initiative established by Edelkoort in 2011 to promote the survival of textile creativity and knowledge. Over the years, Edelkoort and her business partner Philip Fimmano have dedicated their energy to exhibitions, educational programs, conferences, a trend magazine and starting the Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize. This presentation therefore celebrates these efforts and the first decade of New York Textile Month, a non-profit organization that brings together hundreds of talents from the New York area and beyond every September.

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