/// WHAT
A three-week long showcase of trend-setting products designed in Quebec, including home furnishings, tableware and wine accessories, fashion, children’s toys and even pet products. FROM QUEBEC – In New York City brings together the most talented Quebec designers for this one-time only gallery-boutique. It is a unique opportunity for designers, interior decorators, architects, retailers as well as collectors and the general public to see a wide range of innovative products and design ideas Quebec has to offer. Limited quantities of the featured designs are available for purchase at Relative Space during the showcase.
/// WHEN
For three weeks only, September 29th through October 22nd, 2010.
Opening day: September 29th. By invitation only.
Exclusive sneak preview for the press, 5 pm to 6 pm.
To inquire, contact us
To the Trade day: September 30th. By appointment only.
9:30 am to 3 pm
To inquire, contact us
To the public: October 1st until October 20th, 2010. Products are available for sale.
RelativeSpace
2 Bond Street, between Broadway and Lafayette
New York City / Map it
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
/// WHO
/ The Québec Government Office in New York
The Québec Government Office in New York is Québec’s principal representation in the United States. Its mission is to promote cooperation and foster relations between Québec and the United States while providing more opportunities to learn about Québec. It also acts as a trade promotion agency to open new markets for Québec’s goods and services while encouraging business investment in Québec.
Quebec Government Office
One Rockefeller Plaza, Suite 2600 / New York, NY 10020
T:212.843.0950 / www.quebecusa.org
Contact: Paul Dallaire / Paul.dallaire@mri.gouv.qc.ca
/Josée Lepage, creative director
Based in New York, Josée Lepage is a design consultant, independent curator and founder of a namesake firm that specializes in collaborations, special projects and artistic direction in the realm of design.
Emphasizing both established and experimental work, Lepage brings her experience as a designer, retailer and gallierist to conceive and manage projects that push boundaries at design’s confluence with art, fashion and popular culture.
Recently, Lepage co-organized such high-profile events as The Candy Shoppe, in collaboration with Tobias Wong, Papabubble and Cappellini .The Wrong Store, a guerilla shop in New York, and As Long as it Lasts…, a pop-up tattoo parlor featuring designs by prominent artists and designers, at Art Basel Miami Beach/Design Miami. In 2008, she was also the co-creative director of Japan C, an 11-week festival of contemporary Japanese design and culture at Felissimo Design House in Manhattan. Such efforts have received widespread attention in publications from Dazed and Confused, Core77 and Frame to the New York Times, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle and others.
In 2005, Lepage co-founded Commissaires, an experimental design gallery in Montreal, where she mounted exhibitions of work by talents including Maarten Baas, Tobias Wong, 5.5 designers, Bless, Gilles Saucier and others.
Contact: Josée Lepage
Joseelepage@gmail.com / Tel:347 241 2618
www.joseelepage.com
/ RelativeSpace, the Venue
RelativeSpace is an award winning Canadian design company focused on flooring products. In November 2009, they opened their first US based showroom showcasing sustainable and LEED-compliant wood and textiles, located at 2 Bond Street, near Broadway in New York.
Relative Space’s products are curated and designed with a focus on architectural relevance, and long term considerations that envelope both the outdoor, and indoor environment. Experienced staff work for & with clients, aiming at minimum, to bring an interesting palette of materials to compliment each unique space.
The 2 Bond Street showroom is one of a kind, truly more than a venue to showcase just flooring products, but rather one to embrace concept & design – in part the reason for supporting “From Quebec.”
Contact:
RelativeSpace & FLOORWORKS
2 Bond Street, Showroom / New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212 353 3370 / www.relative-space.com
Gotham Public Relations Courtney@gothampr.com / Tel:212.352.2147
/ espresso communication
espresso communication was literally born of the advent of information technology. Founded in 1995 and sensing the scope of the technological revolution that was already underway, the company dove head first into the adventure.
The agency has since developed in tandem with the technological changes that have shaped—and reshaped—the face of the communications industry. In these Web 2.0 and social media times, it is still—and always will be—that curiosity, that constant thirst to learn and innovate present in each and every member of our team that enables us to offer our clients new avenues of communication that are always evolving and always goal-oriented. From design to technology, from customer service to strategic vision, our creativity has largely surpassed the boundaries of yesteryear’s drafting tables and is present in every step of our creative process.
Whether in NYC or in Montréal, the ingredient essential to our success remains the same: our team, made up of individuals with a wide range of experience and backgrounds. The group’s cohesion and its commercial, social, humanitarian, and professional vision are what give each of espresso’s projects its unique flair.
Contact:
espresso communication montreal
4521 Clark street, second floor / Montreal (QC) H2T 2T3
Tel: (514) 286-9696 / info@espressocommunication.com
espresso communication nyc
Tel:646-233-9713 / nyc@espressocommunication.com
