Design Entrepreneurship
A Conversation with Gaye Cevikel and Melissa Feldman
Design Istanbul New York Side Event at Wanted Design 2013
Saturday, May 18
4-6pm
Gallery 6, Terminal Stores
(11th Ave b/n 27th & 28th Streets)
Free entry, Pre-registration required here
Reception to follow
As part of The American Turkish Society's Design: Istanbul-New York debut exhibition at Wanted Design 2013, Gaye Cevikel, founder of luxury design brand GAIA&GINO and design writer and style editor Melissa Feldman, will lead "Design Entrepreneurship,” a lively discussion on the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur.
"My mission is to find the contemporary in Turkish cultural forms, then translate them into a completely new, future design language of Turkey." - Gaye Cevikel
Arguably Turkey’s first female design entrepreneur, Gaye is known for combining traditional and contemporary design by asking design luminaries such as Karim Rashid, Arik Levy, Andree Putman, and Jaime Hayon to create innovative, witty and story telling products representative of the brand’s identity. Previously a Senior Style Editor for House & Garden, Feldman has also been a contributing editor to Harpers Bazaar and Coastal Living magazines. In 2007 Melissa founded Stroll Productions, an editorial and media production company, which is an outgrowth of Stroll, a magazine devoted to outdoor art and street culture that Feldman published over 20 years ago. Register for this event, here.
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