New Format has been selected as Industrial Designer of the Year by Western Living Magazine. We are honoured to be recognized among the great range of talent on Canada’s west coast. The Industrial Design award celebrates the studio’s body of work and overall approach to our practice. From signature furniture to custom commissions, we combine industrial craft with thoughtful design to bring a touch of magic to all kinds of interiors.
We are proud to be among the winners of the inaugural Western Living Design 25 competition. The awards honour some of the best Canadian designers across many mediums.
Our winning design is the Borrowed Forms Credenza, a special piece which is the result of dozens of trips to forage for suitable stone formations in the Pacific Northwest. Rocks are selected for form and texture, and their impressions are captured in poured jeweler’s wax. These are quilted together to form a tapestry of textures, before being lost wax cast in solid bronze to form the fronts of the credenza.
We are pleased to present the Froe Table. This piece is hand crafted from copper with a torch fired glass enamel finish. No two shingles are created alike—as the heat fuses the glass to the metal, and the glass and copper meld into one finish—durable and smooth, insulating the cool metal and providing a dappled surface reactive to the touch.
The elegant new Small Victory cafe space designed by &Daughters was featured in the design section of the Vancouver Sun. New Format created a special finish for the custom bronze interior elements using spent coffee grounds saved from their other locations, reflecting the cafe’s own makings as part of the architecture. The use of coffee and wheat as design elements complement the harder edges of the concrete and gray stone, and serve to tell the story of the place.
This collaboration for Small Victory Cafe was featured on the Modbar blog. We buried these Modbar taps in spent coffee grounds from other Small Victory locations to create this custom dappled finish. The result is a beautiful and functional feature that reflects the intersection of these different crafts.
We are pleased to present a new addition to the Plano collection: the Plano Wall Mirror. The low-iron mirror is surrounded by hand-carved aged bronze that is formed by feel, and finished with a patina that highlights with the unique nine-sided geometry of the frame. Custom sizing is welcome.
We are pleased to introduce the Cirrus Coffee Table. Shown in Silver Nitrate Bronze and Oxidized Maple, this piece juxtaposes structural solidity with lightness of form. Custom variations are available, including a variety of domestic hardwoods or marble for the tabletop.
NUVO profiled this sleek penthouse in Bjarke Ingels’ Vancouver House as its “Home of the Week.” The penthouse interior was designed by Leckie Studio and features a living space composed of rich walnut and steel finishes, a central glass terrarium with a living cedar, and beautiful stonework throughout. New Format Studio created custom blackened steel architectural elements and accents for the project, including a sculptural 2,000-pound shelving unit that floats effortlessly above the marble kitchen island.
The beautiful new Wish Dry Bar space, designed by Peter Wilds, was featured in the weekend edition of the Vancouver Sun. New Format created the custom archways and mirror frames in a hand-finished stippled brass. These brass details, alongside lighting by Matthew McCormick, are a connecting thread between the different spaces within the salon.
Introducing the Borrowed Forms series, currently featured in Dezeen Magazine. The cast bronze vessels are now on display at the Alpenglow Projects gallery opening exhibit, surrounded by a carefully curated selection of furniture, art and objects from designers like Jeff Martin, Steven Haulenbeek, Lukas Peet, and Bari Ziperstein.
New Format has been commissioned to create the new Small Victory bakery in Vancouver, Canada. Designed by local firm &Daughters, the raw palette of the space is preserved and elevated with purposeful use of fine materials. Special for the project is a bespoke finish inspired by the pattern and texture of coffee, created as a homage to the cafe’s artistry, and to reference the environment to its purpose.
New configuration of the Connect Credenza for CLB Architects in Jackson, Wyoming, USA. Palette in warm metal tones—Hot Rolled Steel case and base, and door fronts in Aged Brass.
Plano Bar Cabinet featured in the March/April edition of Azure Magazine.
Mers Console Table featured for “Global Interiors” in the Wallpaper Magazine UK April 2020 Issue, as part of a selection of significant design pieces from Canada alongside Omer Arbel, Jamie Wolfond, Lambert & Fils, Calen Knauf, Christian Woo, and others.
Invited by Workof to create a Christmas tree ornament for their annual holiday fundraiser, we took the silhouette of the iconic painted glass orb and created a facsimile in brass mesh. The piece was then treated with a proprietary method of aggregation that allows for the organic growth of copper solids on the brass sphere, providing an interpretation of the classic form from an uncontrolled process.
A new iteration of the Mers collection is the Mers Dining Table. Shown in solid aluminum with a satin finish this piece can be used indoors and out, and is available in any of our standard aluminum finishes.
Announcing Studio6F in Chicago as our newest showroom. Gil Melott and his team carefully curate a gallery of outstanding design work from around the world—their excellent eye and hands-on approach makes for a natural fit with New Format as our representation in the Chicago area and beyond.
New Format was awarded the GRAY Magazine award award for Product Design – Furniture for its Plano Bar Cabinet. Congratulations to all finalists and thank you to GRAY Magazine for a wonderful awards nights representing some of the best of Pacific Northwest design.
Kyla Ray Creative was given free reign to redesign a cabin at the renowned Captain Whidbey in Washington State, USA. A longtime client of New Format, Kyla chose to adapt the Connect system to create a pair of wall mounted nightstands, a floating shelving unit, and the fireplace surround.
New Format announces Aged Brass, a new standard finish. This heavily burnished, hand applied patina is seen as a point of departure—time and use continue to enhance the intrinsic qualities of the material.
NF has been commissioned to create decorative items for the impressive tower project designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. The studio will be producing built-in furniture, objects, and surfaces for the penthouse of the soon to be completed building.
New Format is proud to present their first foray into the design of small goods. This tray was created as a gift for a gracious client, to accompany their matching Connect Collection pieces. It is now available to purchase, either to accompany your own Connect pieces or as a standalone canvas for treasured objects.
New Format was recognized as ‘One to Watch’ at the 2019 WL Designer of the Year awards.
New Format has been invited to present the Plano Bar Cabinet at Vignettes, a curated show of notable Canadian design. Organized by Hinterland Design & AndLight in conjunction with Jan Kath, and supported by IDS West during Vancouver Design Week, this offering represents the finest of the country’s new and established contemporary work.
Discover the new powdercoat colors available: Burgundy, Pacific Blue, Cream, White, Rust, and Black. These new presentations are inspired by the tones and textures of elemental materials but manifested in a robust industrial finish for a broad range of use cases.
New Format Studio and Jeff Martin Joinery have created an architectural environment for Wallpaper Store’s inaugural exhibition in Vancouver, hosted by contemporary fashion house, Leisure Center.
The exhibition is composed of the respective designers Mers and Neolith series. Like an exploded bookshelf, the bodies of work burst off the wall to occupy a new dimensional attitude. Similar to highways and high rises, planks of material weave amongst themselves to play host to the iconic designs presented by WallpaperSTORE*.
September 19 – December 19 2019 at Leisure Centre, 950 Homer St, Vancouver
The Mers Collection just got larger with the addition of the Dining table, Café Table and Console Table. More sizes and configurations in the same design language increases the flexibility of the system. As always, these new pieces can be placed indoors and out. Available now online at WallpaperSTORE*, 1stdibs, and our website.
Welcome to a new piece in the collection. The Connect Nightstands have been created through a private commission, bringing the client’s palette of leather, warm tone steel, and bronze into conversation with the delicate precision of the Connect system.
Our Plano Bar Cabinet was shortlisted for Best in Show at the NYCxDesign Awards—congratulations to our fellow honourees.
New Format Studio is beyond excited to announce our presence at ICFF 2019, North America’s largest furniture and design show. We will be presenting our new Plano Bar Cabinet in bronze and curved acid wash glass, our Lincoln Lounge Chair in black steel, bronze, and full grain leather, and our Mers Side and Coffee Tables in a variety of finishes. We are proud to make our debut alongside a host of the world’s best designers.
ICFF NYC – May 19-22, 2019 – Jarvis Convention Centre – Booth #859
Henry Norris, founder of New Format, was awarded the 2018 Carter Wosk British Columbia Creative Achievement Award for Applied Art and Design. Many of the alumni of this award have gone on to become world renowned in their disciplines and we are honored to be among them.
Laura Melling collaborated with New Format Studio to create the new Article Atrium at their headquarters in Vancouver.
The project consists in dividing a large narrow space into “rooms” to display the furniture in a gallery-like layout.
Discover Small Victory, a unique and thoughtful café-bakery space crafted in beautiful materials, serving delicious baked goods and coffee, located on Granville St in Vancouver. New Format provided the items in brass and created a series of accents from the space-defining mesh bulkheads, to the patinated brass cladding, down to the carved bronze spoon cups.
