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 artisan Stephen Antonson’s field sculptures reveal sudden textures and patterns.

Grid Mug by Recreation Heart. Picture through Recreation Heart

Checks, grids, dots and squiggles are favourite motifs for practical ceramics handmade by Josephine Heilpern of Crown Heights.

All people Salt & Pepper Grinders by Dusen Dusen. Picture by Areaware

Mattress Stuy-based Dusen Dusen’s anthropomorphic All people salt and pepper grinders stack faces, checks and stripes.

Flat Works Rug for Hay by Ethan Cook dinner. Picture by Hay

In Soho, artist Ethan Cook dinner interprets minimalist woven work into rugs that includes attenuated grids and oversize checks.

Editor’s notice: A model of this story appeared within the Spring/Summer time 2022 concern of Brownstoner journal.

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