Basic.Space Brings Collectible Design, Art And Fashion Together In SoHo For Its Second New York Edition
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Basic.Space is bringing its evolving approach to luxury retail back to New York, transforming a SoHo address into a meeting point for collectible design, contemporary art, fashion, and culture. Open through November 19, the second New York edition occupies 13 Crosby Street, offering a weeklong presentation that considers how objects, creative disciplines, and commerce can exist within the same environment.
Produced in collaboration with artist Alexander May, the exhibition expands on Basic.Space’s previous three-day format with an immersive installation that brings together historic and contemporary works. Under May’s artistic direction, the space becomes a carefully composed environment where furniture, artwork, materials, and sound establish new relationships across generations of creative practice. The result is less traditional retail showroom and more cultural destination, with each piece available to purchase throughout the experience.
Among the exhibition’s highlights is The Lounge, an installation featuring a custom-designed work by Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios, inspired by the proportions and comfort of a business-class airplane seat. The presentation brings together Virgil Abloh’s 2035: US Edition collection for Vitra, including a Ceramic Block and reinterpretations of Jean Prouvé’s Antony armchair and Petite Potence lamp. Additional works by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Mario Bellini, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, and Pierre Jeanneret reinforce the installation’s dialogue between modernist design and contemporary interpretation.
The entire installation will also serve as the prize for the Basic.Space x Apple Pay Luxury Draw. Entries are available for $1, with proceeds benefiting the Virgil Abloh Foundation, which supports emerging creatives from underrepresented communities. Entries close November 19, with a winner selected December 8.
Art extends beyond the furniture and collectible objects. PLATFORM:, the artist-driven brand acquired by Basic.Space last year, presents paintings by Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and designer Joe Henry Baker. The display includes two previously unexhibited large-scale works, Carry Away and Afterimage, alongside selections from his Seed series and See it in the water. Drawing from his background in design, interiors, and furniture, Baker approaches painting as both an image and a constructed object, emphasizing the relationship between material and process.
Sound receives its own dedicated environment through Needle in the Haystack, an installation by New York-based speaker design studio and teahouse Silence Please. Hay bales become communal seating facing a pair of silver high-fidelity loudspeakers, with two turntables positioned between them.
“With Needle in the Haystack, we brought a familiar sign of fall into the room and made it somewhere to sit and listen,” said Marwan Roushdy, founder of Silence Please. “At Silence Please, we think of the room as part of the sound system. We give as much thought to where people sit and how they spend time together as we do to the speakers they’re listening to.”
Elsewhere, NFL player Stefon Diggs' Si Vis Pacem presents its H Seating System, a modular furniture design with a distinctive H-shaped silhouette. HOUSE BY collaborates with Belgian designer Glenn Martens on Object 003, a sculptural cast-aluminum candleholder produced in a signed and numbered edition of 300. Curator Marquel Rashaad Williams also brings together emerging and established designers, including Desiré Alessi, Daniel Swarilov, Emily Thurman, and Katharina Kaminski.
The experience extends into hospitality and lifestyle through a collaboration between Tuleste Factory and sponsors Blacklane, Baileys, and Mr Black. Custom resin installations, collectible objects, and a specially curated selection of giftable designs connect the presentation to the approaching holiday season.
Importantly, Basic.Space maintains its commercial foundation throughout the exhibition. Every piece on view is available for purchase in person or through its digital marketplace, where an AI-powered personalized feed, exclusive event access, and tailored offers extend the shopping experience beyond the physical space.
Basic.Space's return follows previous activations in London and Los Angeles, further establishing its multi-city approach to connecting commerce with creative communities. With its second New York edition, the platform makes a case for retail as something more than product discovery: an opportunity to experience the people, ideas, and design perspectives that give objects their cultural value.
Basic.Space New York runs November 13–19, 2026, at 13 Crosby Street in SoHo, with public hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Editorial note: Written in a culture-forward, commercially informed editorial register, drawing on the structure, descriptive framing, and brand-context approach found in your published Forbes work.
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Basic.Space returns to New York with a weeklong SoHo exhibition curated by Alexander May, bringing together collectible design, contemporary art, fashion, and sound in an immersive retail experience that connects cultural discovery with commerce.