Meet Shelly Sabel
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
You’ve probably never heard of her – but you should have. Her most recent design is being featured alongside work from Yves Behar, Calvin Klein, Yoko Ono, and 31 of the hottest other designers around. Shelly Sabel is an Brooklyn-based lighting designer who splits her time among personal projects/explorations, paid work, and teaching young up-and-comers at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. And I have the pleasure of being able to say “I knew her when…” (I grew up with the youngest of the Sabel sisters and have had the opportunity to cross paths with Shelly over the years).
Shelly’s latest project is Vipp’s 70th Anniversary Charity Auction in conjunction with Design Within Reach. Thirty five designers were invited to use Vipp’s trash can as a canvas to create whatever they wanted. The resulting works will be auctioned off tomorrow at a gala event hosted at DWR’s SOHO store (the event starts at 7pm if you’re interested in placing a bid). The benefits will go to DIFFA – the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS.
I caught up with Shelly last night to pick her brain about life, design, her work, and the Vipp project specifically. Read more – and see all of the different cans – after the jump…
