As our NY Design Week 2011 coverage winds down, I’ve finally gotten around to sharing one of my favorite pieces from the myriad shows, one of the very first pieces I saw in Noho Design District nearly two weeks ago. The $H!T Happens crew wasn’t quite done installing at Relative Space on Bond St, but I managed to get a photo of Judith Seng‘s “Trift” as it was displayed in the middle of the space.
The German designer (formerly of Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec) does a nice job combining modern geometry and a more overtly organic form.
Trift explores the ideal of perfect, high-gloss surfaces by creating and destroying them within the same object. Each form and surface derives from the individual size, characteristics and gradual transformations over time of the underlying tree-log.
The polished, plastic quality of the lacquered top fades into the natural grain of the log, while the saturated hues add a more whimsical dimension to the stools, suggesting some kind of supernatural ossification.
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