TOP 10 Diningroom Vignette Faves: DIFFA Dining by Design 2014

This past weekend at Pier 94 was the Architectural Digest Home Show 2014 where the DIFFA organization, whose mission is to help those living with HIV and AIDS, puts on an amazing event every year called Dining by Design. It showcases up and comers and premier design voices who create intimate, unique dining vignettes. See below without much commentary from me. You will be impressed, and inspired by the cutting edge and ingenious creativity! 

RALPH LAUREN HOME 

PARISIAN RUSTIC CHIC LOFT

Ralph Lauren Home #diffa https://t.co/kEsfWp5qsL

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NEW YORK DESIGN CENTER DESIGNED BY KATI CURTIS  
MALE/FEMININE DICHOTOMY

New York Design Center by Kati Curtis #diffa https://t.co/LbMBUcyh0k

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 SOM | MILLER | BLAKER

INDUSTRIAL MOD

Ottawa Canada's capital by Geoff Howell Studio #diffa https://t.co/HenniSvXse

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KRAVET DESIGNED BY DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
JEWEL TONE COLOR AND PATTERN

Kracet by Diane von Furstenberg #diffa https://t.co/G5jHwATJjA

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INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
GRAPHIC 

Interior Design Magazine #diffa https://t.co/VpauBFKvwC

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STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE
INDUSTRIAL CHIC

Studios Architecture #diffa https://t.co/ucsd619s7l

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ESSIE DESIGNED BY ROBERT VERDI
PLAYFULLY ELEGANT

Essie by Robert Verdi #diffa https://t.co/mGHTJC3Axq

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CALVIN KLEIN HOME
ORGANIC PURE MINIMALISM

Calvin Klein Home #diffa https://t.co/KQ8rcY3TPc

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ddc DESIGNED BY DAVID LING
LUXURIOUS  COMFORT

David Ling #diffa https://t.co/NluaagDbYd

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MAYA ROMANOFF DESIGNED BY KARA MANN
BOHEMIAN LUSH

Maya Romanoff by Kara Mann #diffa https://t.co/vaqttd99Is

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Behind the Making of DIFFA's Dining by Design 2013 ENTRANCE

Every year at the Architectural Digest show in NYC there is always a magnificent entrance that transports you into the world of DIFFA’s (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) Dining by Design.  Last year's 2012 intricately cut entrance was designed by Razortooth Design and this past year's phenomenom was created by two talented design studios - Input Creative Studio + Clark Gaynor Interiors. Together they designed a multi-media abstracted mirrored experience. It was powerful....  filled with a matrix of 272 mirrored light bulbs which reflects participants as they enter the DIFFA event. The designers add, "The entrance represents the journey of an AIDS victim; illustrated metaphorically through the " light at the end of the tunnel" that DIFFA's efforts provide."  For me it was not only a portal; but also a place of pause.  As I stood there, I was not only faced with my own image multiplied on the underside of  stimulating tiny balls; but also reflecting on the cause and all those suffering with the AIDS disease. A beautiful and thoughtful provoking design!