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Textured Paper Sculptures by Zai Divecha Emphasize Shadow and Light

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San Francisco-based artist Zai Divecha fashions countless pleats, creases, and flaps for her monochromatic paper sculptures. From geometric tessellations to flat sheets with dozens of rounded cuts and points, Divecha’s pieces accentuate the relationships between light and shadow and natural and manufactured elements.

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Kasper Kyster Beautifies Plastic Into Handmade Furniture

Design Milk

The collection, which includes two chairs, a table, a bench, a stool, pendant light, a shelf, and a sculptural floor light, look almost glass-like, with textures and imperfections reminiscent of ceramics.

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Stillmade Debuts the Collaborative Series With Four Artists + Designers

Design Milk

The Brooklyn-based manufacturer and designer has been a leader in the American furniture manufacturing industry for the past decade. Along the way they’ve consistently provided small, emerging designers access to production that’s generally reserved for big brand names and large manufacturers.

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Mud, Water, and Heat Combine to Add Tactile Beauty to Terracotta Collection

Design Milk

Australian New Volumes’ approach to furnishings and objects could be surmised to be one in response to the diminishing presence of the natural, textural, and the imperfect – designs defined by a materiality serving modern living innately attuned to the earthly elements.

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Adagio: A Ronan Bouroullec Design That Transforms Tiles Into Fabric-Like Installations

Design Milk

By itself, Adagio is quite simple, but as you configure dozens of the modules together, slowly (that is, in adagio), a grand sculpture comes together, transforming blank walls into gallery-worthy installations. Beyond its aesthetic beauty, Adagio reflects Mutina’s commitment to sustainability.

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Artists demonstrate how to grab attention at the world's biggest design event

Creative Boom

Hideki's team also crafted sculptures that surround the car, which are physically identical but use internal lighting with different textures to represent the idea of personalisation. To some, this might sound like a lot of marketing spin, and you might think: what is a car manufacturer doing commissioning expensive artworks?

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Sangmin Oh Illuminates Upcycled Industrial Fiber in Knitted Lamps and Furnishings

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Oh’s sculptural pieces revolve around the use of textiles to create knitted or woven shades for lamps and other objects. Oh utilizes scraps of the material discarded by the manufacturer, turning to 3D knitting technology to reimagine colorful, textural pieces of fabric.