{"id":1628,"date":"2010-06-09T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:25:26","slug":"designer-harry-allen-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/designer-harry-allen-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Harry Allen in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live in New York? Like interesting design? Like wine and cheese?<\/p>\n<p>Then swing by the <a href=\"http:\/\/productdesign.meetup.com\/44\/calendar\/13159995\/?from=list&amp;offset=0\" target=\"_self\">Apartment Therapy Meetup<\/a> tonight at Knoll and listen to a Q\/A with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryallendesign.com\/\" target=\"_self\">designer Harry Allen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Harry Allen is an award-winning interior and industrial designer. His work is highly imaginative and surprising. He often casts unexpected everyday items into functional pieces of modern art. Here are a few of the items we sell at <a href=\"www.uncommongoods.com\/?source=blog_post41\" target=\"_self\">UncommonGoods.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1629\" title=\"Nut Bowl by Harry Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/17465_lg-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"Nut Bowl by Harry Allen\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/17465_lg-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/17465_lg.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=17465&amp;source=blog_post41\" target=\"_self\">Walnut and Peanut Bowls<\/a> cast in white resin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19100&amp;source=blog_post41\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1637\" title=\"brush vase by harry allen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19100_brushVase-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"brush vase by harry allen\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19100_brushVase-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19100_brushVase-486x730.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19100&amp;source=blog_post41\" target=\"_self\">Paint brush vase<\/a> hand cast from real brushes in resin and marble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1631\" title=\"Hand hook by Harry Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19102_lg-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"Hand hook by Harry Allen\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19102_lg-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/19102_lg.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Slightly creepy, but I can&#8217;t deny that it is interesting! Harry cast this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19102&amp;source=blog_post41\" target=\"_self\">wall hook<\/a> from his own hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Apartment Therapy<\/a> is one of my favorite blogs. And Maxwell, who runs the Meetup does an awesome job of asking artists\/designers\/creative types interesting and probing questions. It&#8217;s really informative, fun and free! Plus, there&#8217;s wine and cheese and a drawing to win a piece by the designer!<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q &#038; A session with award-winning designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[34,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}