Zoe Coombes will speak at MIT Architecture this Friday. Details on MIT's website »
Forged by Numbers
Commonwealth on the Cover of New York Times Style Magazine
It’s great to see my friends and sometimes collaborators Zoe and David on the cover of the New York Times Style Magazine. See the article here.
Truncheon
Truncheon, a new lamp by my friends at Commonwealth, is now available at Matter.
Espeis Outside
Zoe Coombes and David Boira, my friends and collaborators at Espeis and Commonwealth, have a million things going on and one of them is the recently opened Espeis Outside.
Candelabra
Photo by Isa Wipfli
Candelabra is a design research project I done in collaboration with David Boira and Zoe Coombes, based on the work with minimal surfaces and genetic organization I did in Bill Macdonald’s studio at Columbia. The intention was to produce a chandelier that relies on its architecture rather than its technology for its performance. The curvature of the components was optimized to refract light as well as to connect seamlessly at its edges either in plane or offset. This logic allows for multiple configurations that were in the end sampled from the refractive behavior of digital flocking patterns (very Bill Macdonald). Best of all, its black.
The pieces themselves are made from vaccum formed plastic and fiberglass, covered in tons of bondo, sanded, and finished with primer and auto body paint. They and are attached at the edges by laser cut petg plates. They were made in a very intense 4 day spell in the MOMA PS-1 workshop under the premise that we were building prototypes for their summer jam series.
Photography courtesy of Isa Wipfli.
Component 1
This is the first finished component of the chandelier I am designing with David Boira and Zoe Coombes. Only 31 more to make...
Prototype Fabrication
SCI-Arc’s 3-axis mill carving a mold out of laminated particle board
David Boira removing the first vacuum forming test at the Warner Brothers set building shop in L.A.
Two unfinished components with the a test connector plate
72 component halves made from vacuum formed PETG plastic
Zoe Coombes finishing the fiberglass connection between the two halves of a component at PS-1
My brother Miles preparing a component for another round of autobody paint