Bankston x FOR SCALE: NYCxDesign Week
This May, in partnership with FOR SCALE, the design publication and curatorial platform founded by editor and critic David Michon — Bankston presents A Manifesto on Touch as part of NYCxDesign Week.
At the centre of the exhibition is a precise proposition: “that touch is not what the handle begs, it is how it performs”. In a discipline increasingly mediated by the rendered image, interiors curated and distributed before they are ever inhabited, A Manifesto on Touch serves as a refreshing departure from the purely optical.
Touch is a sensation, and sensation is information. It is how the body language of décor speaks.
- David Michon, FOR SCALE
FOR SCALE is the design publication and platform founded by David Michon, whose writing on architecture, interiors, and material culture has established him as one of the more incisive voices in contemporary design criticism.
Bankston x FOR SCALE operates with the conviction that the objects we choose to surround ourselves with; the things worthy of our touch, our fingers, our grip, are among the most consequential design decisions we make. In Michon’s framing, a handle is not merely an object but an action: an assertion, or a gesture, but always action.
Bankston’s presence in New York was established in 2024 with the US launch of Hemispheres, the collection envisioned in collaboration with Brooklyn-based studio Civilian, marked at Galerie Was in SoHo.
NYCxDESIGN, the city’s flagship design festival drawing the international architecture and interiors community each May, is where that conversation continues. This year’s exhibition and partnership with FOR SCALE marks a progression: one that moves beyond the singular collection launch and into something more immersive.
A Manifesto on Touch opens with a private launch at colbo on the Lower East Side, 13 May, 5-8pm.
Open by appointment: 14-17 May, 11am-3pm.
The Partnership Continues at 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen.
Bankston x FOR SCALE continues the narrative this June at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, where the partnership presents How to Handle, a new installation honouring the decisive action of a handle, and the next chapter in an ongoing conversation about what it means to truly touch the spaces we inhabit.
