"A motley group of design-loving Venetians are heading to SoHo for Conversation Piece: Design is Dead. Tiny San Marco gallery Giorgio Mastinu, for example, is presenting works of the Italian modernist artist and furniture designer Enzo Mari alongside glass pieces by Marie-Rose Kahane from Yali and textiles by Chiarastella Cattana, whose jacquards are made in the Dolomites. Joining this powerful Italian lineup are large-scale lamps crafted from molded plastic in the forms of sea shells, a collaboration between the Los Angeles– and Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero and New York furniture studio Green River Project."