Architects: DinellJohansson - Morten Johansson Location: Gotland, Sweden Year: 2010 Photographs: Elisabeth Toll
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Master of Plaster // Rachel Whiteread
Master of Plaster // Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread studied painting at Brighton Polytechnic and sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Using plaster, rubber and resin, she makes sculptures of the spaces in, under and on everyday objects. Her work operates on many levels. It captures and gives materiality to the sometimes unfamiliar spaces of familiar life (bath, sink, mattress or chair), transforming the domestic into the public; it fossilises everyday objects in the absence of human usage and it allows those objects to stand anthropomorphically for human beings themselves.
Her choice of subject-matter reflects an awareness of the intrinsically human-scaled design of the objects with which we surround ourselves and exploits the severing of this connection, by removal of the object's function, to express absence and loss. Her early work allowed autobiographical elements. Later works move towards the expression of a universal human position, and their titles become correspondingly more prosaic.
She won the Turner Prize in 1993.
She lives and works in London.
Text: Tate.org
Photography: Courtsey of Tate.org, Gagosian Gallery
Tate Britain Millbank // Caruso St John Architects
Architects: Caruso St John Architects Location: London, Great Britain Year: 2013 Photographs: Helene Binet
House Melides // Aires Mateus
Teshima Art Museum // Ryue Nishizawa
Architects: Ryue Nishizawa Location: Takamatsu Port, Japan Year: 2010 Photographs: Iwan Baan, Courtsey of Nishizawa, Noboru Morikawa
CK Office // Claus en Kaan Architecten
Architects: Claus en Kaan Architecten Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Year: 2007 Photographs: Christian Richters, Luuk Kramer
Annex Table // Joe Doucet
Annex Table by Joe Doucet
Annex is a signed and numbered edition commissioned by the Shop at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Made completely of hand-honed marble, the tables use only gravity to securely join them together.
"The contradiction between the notion of self-assembly and such a luxury material was the point of the pieces – a high-value piece of furniture, with almost no waste and delivered in the most efficient form possible."
"I chose an Arabesque white marble, as the subtle change in grain direction accentuates the support tabs which form the X shape on top of the tables,"
"The sheets are milled to a precise thickness, then water-jet cut, and then hand-honed. I wanted each piece to have a specific texture that I likened to touching the leg of Michelangelo's David."
Joe Doucet
The tables were unveiled during New York Design Week, that took place May 2014.
Photography by Kendall Mills
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Chilean House 1 // Smiljan Radic Clarke
Architects: Smiljan Radic Clarke
Location: Chile
Year: 2006
Photographs: Gonzalo Puga
