Brooklyn designers are on the grid this season, taking part in with checks and plaids on textiles, rugs, homewares and sculpture. Some draw on Twenties checkerboard flooring, whereas others channel Nineteen Eighties New Wave brights.

Patchwork Maxi Tank Gown designed and styled by Parron Allen, mannequin Floriane Tulissi. Picture by George Edwards-Stimola
The Patchwork Maxi Tank Gown by designer Parron Allen of Prospect Lefferts Gardens repurposes material scraps in a grid impressed by Mondrian and Yves Saint Laurent.

‘Cathedral’ sequence sculpture by Stephen Antonson. Picture by Kreg Holt
Riffing on discarded containers discovered on walks, Gowanus-based sculptor, painter and plaster

