Soft Baroque

Tan2020

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Tan benches, 2020. Installation at Marsèll, Milan.
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Tan 6/7 bench, 2020. Poplar, stainless steel, polyurethane rubber and leather.
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Tan 2/7 bench, 2020. Poplar, stainless steel, polyurethane rubber and leather.
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Tan benches, 2020. Exhibition at Etage Projects, Copenhagen.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Tan benches, 2020. Installation for PIN-UP, Venice. Photo by Leonardo Scotti.
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Work in progress, 2019.
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Work in progress, 2019.
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Work in progress, 2019.




We love the unintended damage the sun can cause on material, particularly plastics and non-natural substances. The chalkiness of plastic chairs, bubbling of window films, scorched billboard images, bleached out gradients in fabrics and slumping of plexiglass or laminates. This seven piece lounge mega structure are a homage to this, refined frozen versions of furniture in a slow fall, melting in the sun, providing somewhere to rest and play on the way down. Each bench element is made from a wooden body and covered in patches of polyurethane rubber to create soft blisters, before being posted in yellow leather. These graphic embossments were poured at pressure points corresponding with a relaxed body.





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