The designer’s latest exhibition at Manhattan gallery R & Company. The show, which runs through March 9, includes several new works from Errazuriz’s Mechanical Cabinet series, a collection of furniture follies that open with elaborately complex mechanisms. Here’s how a few of them unfold.
Open up Sebastian Errazuriz’s Spectacularly Curious Cabinets
A new exhibition at Manhattan gallery R & Company includes the designer’s elaborate mechanical creations.
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The Fan Cabinet resembles its paper namesake, but there’s also a peeling quality to how it opens. There’s more than one way to skin a cabinet?
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The Grand Complication nods to watchmaking, and also happens to be the perfect place to keep one’s collection.
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Magistral seems to pay homage to Thomas Heatherwick’s U.K. pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. We love the idea of this spiny bauble scaled down into a place to keep your keys.
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The Kaleidoscope cabinet is our favorite of the group. We admire its delightful insistence on beauty over utility—that is, for anything other than gazing at precious objects through a peephole.