Dover Street Market interiors

There is a strange force in modern consumer culture that produces contradictory materials and objects. Styles and motifs removed from their original source in a spun around in a feed back loop with off shoots and sold on the open market. New stories are constantly being invented to sell these objects. We like to adapt this phenomenon, enjoy and critique it in our own work. Inappropriately cross pollinating manufacturing process and materials or extending inflating and distorting common construction techniques. Functionality becomes entertainment, degradation becomes decoration, hi-performance becomes performance.

The Dover Street Market interiors are a series of structures that once formed a building, a theoretical Kiko Kostadinov shop, chopped up and sent around the world. A showroom in fragments. The anodised aluminium parts have the typology of a wooden dwelling but are strangely fossilised, with large sections cut away to revel a hollow core. A digital game-like glitch, hi-tech stylised version of a fake rustic wood texture.

The shelving is made from a laminated plywood part replicated and bolted together in different configurations. MDF furniture left in the rain and sun slowly degrades, bows and slumps accidentally creating a more dynamic object. The display pieces are taking this bendy version of what modernism has become, creating a solid and modular version of it. The part can be assembled into stools benches chairs and tables, economical and optimistic rather than a symbol of decay.

Interiors for Kiko Kostadinov at various Dover Street Market locations. London, New York City, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Beijing and Singapore, 2022 - 2023.