Four designers painstakingly reimagine everyday items, proving that one person's wing chair is another's wicked work of art.
By Jennie Nunn
Photography by Susie Tarlton/Sandbox Studio
Posted on February 1, 2008
Flight of Fancy
Thousands of lustrous dyed-black feathers blanket Oakland artist Elyse Hochstadt’s limited-edition wing chair, Portrait of George I ($4,500), which took three months to create. It’s available at FiveTen Studio in Oakland.
Shot in the Dark
By firing a shotgun into a stainless steel mixing bowl, New York artist Tim Dubitsky created the Colander (price available upon request), a hard-core interpretation of a run-of-the-mill kitchen staple from Citizen:Citizen in San Francisco.
Mood Lighting
In a departure from his signature glass-sphere pendant lights, Bocci’s creative director Omer Arbel made the Series 21 chandelier ($2,094 as shown) by wrapping slabs of raw porcelain around frosted Pyrex cones. Available with up to 26 pendants, no two lights are alike.
Paper Source For six months, Portland artist John Woodall dog-eared the pages of old paperback books to create the 16-inch-square Ambvra G. ($2,000). Available at Lola in Berkeley, the one-of-a-kind artworkis mounted on a plywood base.
