Chris Schanck shared the compelling story of his Detroit studio, where he creates furniture, sculpture and other objects out of salvaged and inexpensive materials. Working with a team of artisans – including women from the Bangladeshi immigrant community – he transforms these “poor” materials into works of aesthetic power and poetic resonance. Watch the […]
Misha Kahn took us behind the scenes of his exhibition “Soft Bodies/Hard Spaces,” featuring his groundbreaking and richly varied furniture designs. Explaining both the process and the inventive thinking behind these works, he described the objects as communicating a 21st century humanism, vividly departing from the modernist design legacy. Watch the conversation here: […]
By Glenn Adamson The influence of Gaetano Pesce on current design is pervasive, in a way that is impossible to miss yet difficult to track. Grasping for an image to describe his importance, I think of a river spreading into a great delta. Names can be put to the […]
Read More… from Gaetano Pesce, The Agony and the Ecstasy (2019)
