Part-sculpture, part-lighting installation, this monumental work combines several intricate design techniques—bronze casting for its patinated blue tree trunk and branches, hand-beading for its Venetian glass-bead leaves, and glassblowing for the delicate pink-hued berries that glow beneath them—to a whimsical, beckoning effect.
Chamar Studio founder Sudheer Rajbhar began his career in fashion, and introduced recycled rubber as a sustainable alternative that would provide job security for India’s leatherworking Dalit community. This playful throne is part of a series that marks Rajbhar’s first foray into furniture, with stitching, saddlebags, and belt buckles that remind of his creative origins.
Multicolored cast glass cylinders add an unexpected softness to the industrial feel of this brushed aluminum-clad dresser by the French designer who also created the levitating Olympic caldron whose electric flame rose into the Parisian sky every evening during this past summer’s 2024 Games.
With a practice based around circular design, this Los Angeles talent plays on her own work—bell-legged chairs made of salvaged wood from local construction sites and decorated with scrap fabric cushions—to create this reclaimed Douglas Fir seat with trompe d’oeil-spirited upholstery.
A cast of delicate brass characters dances in the light of this meticulous Asian Crepe Myrtle-base table lamp whose wrapped, box-like shade features Japanese Uda gami paper and hand-loomed Filipino pineapple silk panels, sewn with kimono thread.
