Atelier001 /
"Made in London"

Designer: Eva Menz
Website: atelier001.com
IG: @atelier001

Atelier001 is thrilled to present ‘Made in London’ at Alcova’s first international edition in Miami. Located in Notting Hill, London, Atelier001 creates timeless lighting pieces with the intention that they be passed on to future generations. Founded in 2019 by its creative director Eva Menz, the studio is driven by her eye for detail as well as her commitment to craftsmanship. Today, Atelier001 collections can be found in beautifully designed spaces around the world, including residences, yachts and public spaces. At Alcova Miami 2023, Atelier001 presents 9 signature designs, engaging in a captivating dialogue with the imagery of its authentic London ateliers. The collection of lights presented places a distinct emphasis on the meticulous hand-finishing of each piece, with a particular focus on heritage techniques such as linishing, polishing, and specialised artisanal patination.

Munich-born illumination artist Eva Menz began her eponymous studio in London in 2004. What began as a studio producing residential-scale sculptural works quickly took on architectural dimensions, as she received a myriad of commissions for aethereal and gravity-defying installations. In 2019, Menz launched Atelier001 to create collectible lighting pieces, each meticulously hand-finished by British master artisans, infusing them with their incredible skills. The relationship between Menz, the team, and the skilled artisans is built upon the foundation of deep respect and appreciation for their craft, making these artisans the unsung heroes at the heart of every creation. Some of these invaluable relationships were forged over 15 years ago and continue to be the source of immense pride and inspiration at Atelier001.

Alcova Project Space /
"Digital Ornamentalism"

Designer: Hannah Lim, Clara Schweers, Delphine Lejeune, Kurina Sohn, Stefania Ruggiero, Ryan Decker, Isabel Rower
Website: shop.alcova.xyz
IG: @alcova.milano

Alcova Project Space is a new entity within Alcova. Here we give vent to our curatorial instincts to piece together an image of what most resonates with us on the contemporary design scene, emerging or otherwise.
In this Miami episode, we continue our investigation into the theme of “Digital Ornamentalism”. Informed by extremely heterogeneous visual influences, the works presented here strike us for an aesthetic language that seemingly attempts to transmute the digital obsession of recent years back into material form. It’s as if NFT culture has come full circle, resurfacing in the physical world
and attempting to surpass it, transcending the virtual while retaining its decorative signature.
This is the case for Hannah Lim’s pottery, even though her work originates from research on ancient Asian craftsmanship; and it is even more literal in Ryan Decker’s lamps or Isabel Rower’s wooden stools, liberally tagged with illustrations.
The same emerges from the acidic, viral patterns that inhabit Stefania Ruggiero’s carpets or from Clara Schweers, Delphine Lejeune, and Kurina Sohn’s ethereal flowers-sculptures that weave borosilicate glass with 3D printing.

Bieke Casteleyn /
"Out Of Line"

Designer: Bieke Casteleyn:
Website: biekecasteleyn.com
IG: @biekecasteleyn_shapingobjects

Bieke Casteleyn invites you into the sculptural realm of her iconic Out of Line collection. Each of these organically shaped, high-end furniture objects was artfully designed, refined and handcrafted in Belgium. Their well-considered contours give a room identity, stepping away from traditional straight lines to evoke a softer, more fluid look.
In this exhibit, Bieke Casteleyn showcases her Out of Line classics, augmented by novelties and variants in innovative materials. Afrormosia wood and cement-based plaster unite in a warm interplay of hues and textures, as aesthetically balanced as it is durable.
“Out of Line is clever and refined, displaying a creative attitude that makes it instantly recognizable as a piece of Belgian craftsmanship.”
The organically shaped tables and benches offer ample space for conversation. For those delighting in bold gestures, the intricately layered consoles and shelves offer a striking twist. Each piece is an object that stands out on its own, or can be playfully elevated by Bieke Casteleyn’s sculptural accessories.

Bieke Casteleyn is a Belgian designer of high-end interiors, refined objects and furniture. She studied interior design at the Sint-Lucas School of Arts in Ghent before specializing in product design at the Domus Academy in Milan. Committed to innovative materials and a harmonious feel, Bieke conceives standout designs that are both timeless and durable. Her signature style is warm and sophisticated, with a distinctively bold touch.
Bieke launched her first sculpturally designed Out of Line table in 2015. It soon became an iconic piece that has since matured into a collection of dining tables, coffee tables, desks, consoles, benches, and more.

crafting plastics! studio /
"Senseables"

Designer: crafting plastics! studio
Collaborators: Sensbiom 2.1. in collaboration with Dumolab Research
Website: craftingplastics.com
IG: @crafting_plastics
@dumolab

crafting plastics! studio will present "Senseables," an innovative collection of furniture made from biomaterials, designed to interact with its surroundings.
This new collection is a following up on the research into environmentally responsive biomaterials, as exemplified by the Sensbiom's installations by Crafting Plastics! and Dumolab Research. Featured at Alcova Milan and Materials Matters earlier this year, this large-scale interactive pieces changes color in response to UV radiation, highlighting solar radiation changes in real time and raising awareness about the invisible threats through the materials.
The new collection features 3D-printed bioplastic furniture objects with fluid, dynamic surfaces that respond to external stimuli, such as UVR exposure, transforming the novel interactive biomaterials into functional everyday products.

crafting plastics! studio is an award winning circular design and research studio based in Bratislava, Slovakia, founded by Vlasta Kubušová and Miroslav Král in 2016. The studio's practice focuses its expertise on cross-disciplinary research, development, and implementation of new generations of better ecological biocomposites into our current and future day-to-day lives. By combining science and design, cp!s revolutionizes properties, aesthetics, and values of perishable materials - from natural bioplastics to the environmentally responsive biocomposites for design and architecture.

CyKiK /
"decades ( in space )"

Designer: Marijke Jorritsma, Daniel Perlin, John Vieweg & KamranV
Collaborators: Dyan Jong: Outer Space Rock Vinyl Record sculptor and co-designer. Rucker Manley: Outer Space Rock Vinyl Record co-designer
Sponsor: dublab
Website: hear.space
IG: @cykik
@dublab

decades ( in space ) is a non-profit album of 10 songs by 20 musicians on quadraphonic vinyl supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with artists donating works with all proceeds benefiting dublab. The project commemorates two decades of dublab’s space-making cultivation of global experimentation through community-generated radio. Exploring spatial. sound. design. - the album and packaging transform physically into a spatial installation, including a generated galaxy chair, a space blanket for cover, original origami-folded artwork, scalable patterns and hidden secrets of space. The project’s debut installation at Alcova Miami is presented in a golden room inspired by outer spacecraft which use gold for thermal protection of the craft through space. A one-of-one version of the record designed with real outer space rocks embedded in the record and will also be on display as a part of the exhibition.

CyKiK are engineers, filmmakers, hackers, and designers founded by Arts Technologist, MIT Spatial Sound Lab Researcher and dublab board member KamranV. dublab cultivates global experimentation and positive connection through community-generated radio. Project designers include NASA Designer Marijke Jorritsma, Sustainable Experience Designer Daniel Perlin, Architectural Designer John Vieweg, multi-disciplinary artist Dyan Jong, design researcher Rucker Manley, & KamranV. Musicians include Emily Kokal + Suzanne Ciani, Shruti Kumar + The Koreatown Oddity, Dntel + Mia Doi Todd, Laura Escudé + Sudan Archives, Alex Lilly + Kolars, Drum & Lace + Jeff Parker, Randy Randall + Flula Borg, Beatie Wolfe + Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda, Jeremiah Chiu + Sam Prekop, Daedelus + Molly Lewis.

Dean Norton /
"AQUA"

Designer: Dean Norton
Website: deannorton.com.au
IG: @deannorton

AQUA presents a composition of works past and present that articulate fluidity, subtle depth and a sense of enigma. Comprised of thought-provoking pieces that are perceptible in both design precision and organic variation. Objects such as mirrors, tables and a vessel are explored in a variety of materials and oceanic tones evoking a three-dimensional distillation of the space around them.

Dean Norton is a multidisciplinary designer and collaborator who develops products that consider form, function, refined detailing and harmony in materials. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, he aims to create enduring performative works that connect on an emotional level, merging a balance between art and design whilst maintaining a minimalist aesthetic. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Norton launched his studio in 2017, drawing upon his design experience to create visually engaging, locally made pieces including furniture, objects, and lighting, re-imagining a variety of sculptural forms through the exploration of finishes and materials such as glass, mirror, steel, and timber.

IED - ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN /
"DENOISE"

Designer: IED - ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN
Collaborators: Martin Romeo - Maria Daniela Cimarelli, Erica Gariboldi, Camilla Lucarelli, Ottavio Mannarino, Sofia Masiello, Monica Rivolta, Emma Scarafiotti, Mattia Solazzo
Website: ied.edu
IG: @ied_official

Denoise is a group exhibition by students in the IED Master Course in Visual Arts for the Digital Age. They worked collectively to produce video mapping combining volumes, surfaces and sound over several levels of narration.
The individual work of the artists becomes choral, taking up the concept of noise, which by nature is composed by its interpreters, inhabitants of a hybrid ecosystem between the real and the digital world.
The video mapping showcased is a revisitation and reinterpretation of seven sculptures of the historic Gruppo T, which becomes the theatre of an ideal journey through seven communicative situations – Parallel Languages, Disharmonies, Simultaneous Translations, Impossible Dialogues, New Silences and Encroachments – that narrate the ‘de-programming’ of Programmed Art: the victory of disorder over order, the generative capacity of chance over the programme, the roar of industrial activity that becomes digital silence. Noise that is no longer announced, but that acts and confounds, contains and recounts, distracts and inspires. From this perspective, the activity of denoising as a positive and cognitive act consists – paradoxically - in rendering visible the noise itself.


Istituto Europeo di Design was founded in 1966 based on Francesco Morelli's extraordinary vision. Today, IED is the only School of Higher Education in the creative field to have preserved its Italian cultural references over time. Every year, IED launches innovative educational projects in the fields of study of Design, Fashion, Communication and Management, Arts and Restoration and Visual Arts, developing forms of learning and new models for interpreting the future. Internationally recognised, IED is a network that spanning over 3 countries: in Italy, in Spain and in Brazil. The IED Group's educational offer includes Undergraduate courses, Postgraduate and Continuing Education Courses.

Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular) / Urban Fabric /
"Wish You Were Here"

Designer: Jimenez Lai
Collaborators and other credits: Urban Fabric
Website: www.bureau-spectacular.net
www.urbanfabric.ca
IG: @_bureauspectacular
@urbanfabric_official
@0super

Wish You Were Here is a postcard story, a story of 2D drawings, 2.5D rugs in a 3D room. The hotel room is a fortress of solitude far away from home. It is in this special zone of no place that travelers get to reflect upon the people that cross their minds. The postcard drawings of this installation represent the distant shared connections and influences, as the linework of the notes describe the sensibilities of the rugs. Wish You Were Here features several rugs from the collaboration between Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular) and Urban Fabric, including the piece Shadows of Things We Wished We Had, a story about missing the things we long for.

Jimenez Lai was born in Taiwan, grew up in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. Before establishing Bureau Spectacular, Lai lived in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container on the piers of Rotterdam. Lai's first book, Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects, the Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale, and the Designer of the Future at Art Basel. Lai represented Taiwan at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Lai's work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA.

JOV Design /
"JOV & MARY LENNOX - MSHWY04"

Designer: Studio Mary Lennox
Website: jov-design.com
IG: @jovdesign
@ruby_marylennox

On the upcoming first edition of Alcova Miami 2023, the Belgian rug company JOV is glad to present MSHWY04, the new carpet - created exclusively for the occasion - from the M-SHWY collection, designed by berlin-based Studio Mary Lennox, which was presented for the first-time at the MDW23.
Studio Mary Lennox drawn inspiration for the collection name from the collaborative qualities of mushrooms, and the way they connect to one another through an intelligent communications network (Mycorrhizal Network). The collection name: M-SHWY which is an acronym for Mycorrhizal Super Highway (or in simpler terms- Mushroom Superhighway).
MSHWY04 is the newest member in the MSHWY collection designed by Studio Mary Lennox. This rug is also based on oyster mushrooms, but this time they created a top view of a cluster of oyster mushrooms. To give the rug extra depth and texture JOV used a color gradient from the inside out to the edges, combined with 3D height effects on the edges that makes the rug extra fluffy and impressive to see. The details in the color gradient and the 3D piles on the edges makes it unique and shows our manual skills in handtufting. The MSHWY04 is made from the Chloe quality, that contains New Zealand wool combined with glossy Tencel Lyocell.

Designed and conceived in Belgium, all JOV rugs are handmade in Europe, using materi- als of the highest premium. For 2 generations, JOV aligns sustainability and adaptability to a fast production pace. Known for their personal approach, the Vandenbussche family tru- ly click with their clients. Be it in Belgium, Europe, the United States or Australia. Every rug is hand tufted in a traditional way. This alone acquires unique pieces. Add to those aesthet- ically strong designs, a vast range of colours and pure quality materials, you will notice true pearls in our different collections.

Kalon /
"Rugosa Material Studies: Metal"

Designer: Johannes Pauwen & Michaele Simmering
Website: kalonstudios.com
IG: @kalonstudios

Released in 2020, the Rugosa Collection is the synthesis of a many years’ conversation exploring the evolving function and spirit of the living room. Inspired by the Narragansett home from which the collection takes its name, Rugosa was designed to invite comfort — both communal and solitary.
With this first chapter in our Rugosa Material Studies, the introduction of metal to the collection explores the profound impact material choice has on design. This series deepens our studio’s interests in the cultural history of material use and, practically speaking, allows Rugosa to move outdoors. This is the second release of work for the Rugosa collection; the first featured sustainably harvested Western Sugar Pine wood.
Stemming from a belief in the simple beauty and emotive power of everyday objects, Kalon seeks to deepen our relationship and reverence for the things we live with. Kalon’s work maintains a strong point of view informed by American furniture traditions and modernist design, with a focus on elemental forms, natural materials, and versatility. The studio prides itself on its intense attention to materiality, which is at the core of each of their designs, as is an obsession with integrity.
Kalon was founded in 2007 by Michaele Simmering and Johannes Pauwen and is currently based out of Los Angeles, California.

Kika Karolina Niemczyk /
"Fall in love with yourself"

Designer: Kika Karolina Niemczyk
IG: @kika.karolina.niemczyk

One summer afternoon in the countryside, observing the creative freedom with which several children created their art works, the series of works "Fall in love with yourself" emerged. The author Kika Karolina Niemczyk believes that children are fully perfect beings who show their uniqueness at every step and pour their observations onto paper with an unwavering sure hand. Fascinated by children's creative work, the painter began to spend more time observing the surrounding reality - stones in the river, field flowers, book covers, friends' clothes, tableware in cafes - she tried to look at everything through the eyes of a child, so that she could express herself through abstract paintings with childlike confidence and joy. A therapist's pink manicure, a long massage - the inspiration for the works came from taking pleasure in observing colors, daring to try new things and also working with
imagination. While painting the series "Fall in love with yourself," the artist was also accompanied with a poem by Rupi Kaur: nothing tastes better / than being on your own side.

Karolina Niemczyk, alias Kika, is a professionally active interior designer and painter. The interiors she designs fully reflect the needs and tastes of her clients, and in painting she fulfills only herself. She adheres to the principle that every day is worth a beautiful setting.
Her abstract paintings tell a story of the pleasure that can be derived from simply expressing oneself with color. For the artist, they also have a therapeutic value, helping her to pursue inner harmony. Kika is currently painting in two series: "May garden" and "Fall in love with yourself." She lives and is originally from Poland.

LoopLoop /
"Madder Sunrise"

Designer: Odin Visser & Charles Gateau
Sponsor: Creative Industries Fund NL
Website: studiolooploop.com
IG: @studiolooploop

Madder Sunrise brings together studio LoopLoop's latest research on sustainable materials. This flower-shaped light shade is made of aluminum foil that was plant-dyed through a unique technique developed by the studio, and embossed in an intricate pattern. LoopLoop developed its own embossing mill and patterns to achieve new light-weight materials with high rigidity. The result is a nearly 2 meter diameter disc of delicate aluminum foil that allows the warm shades of the madder dye to shimmer in space.

LoopLoop is a research-based studio for lasting design objects, fully designed & produced in Rotterdam. LoopLoop was nonchalantly born from a collaboration between Odin Visser and Charles Gateau. Odin is an expert in product development, lighting and industrial design, Charles brings together materials science, research and niche production techniques. They joined forces to explore a design and production approach that challenges the current paradigms in the field.

Lukas Wegwerth & Corinna Dehn /
"Edge of a pattern"

Designer: Lukas Wegwerth & Corinna Dehn
Website: lukaswegwerth.com
IG: @lukas_wegwerth
@corinna_dehn

In regions that are rich in forests, shingles as means for roofing and cladding go back to early forms of building and construction.
Shingles are arranged similarly to formations of scales found in the skins of fish or snakes, in butterfly wings or the dorsal shells of armadillos. Let's start from here.

Lukas Wegwerth’s design practice is shaped by his interest in craft and the practical application of his research explorations as well as his interest in natural processes and vernacular material systems.
He co-leads the studio Silva Systems at Design Academy Eindhoven.

Corinna Dehn has worked as a Senior Menswear Designer for Y-3, working in close collaboration with Yohji Yamamoto’s team on crafted garments, aiming for emotional durability.
Following her interest in the potentials of design as means for empowerment and resocialization, she facilitates design workshops for imprisoned young men in Berlin together with NGO Tatort Zukunft.

MAXXI NATIONAL MUSEUM OF 21ST CENTURY ART /
"THE NEW MAXXI DESIGN COLLECTION"

Designer: Objects of Common Interest, Kostas Lambridis, Stef Fusani, Maximilian Marchesani, Architetti Artigiani Anonimi - Annarita Aversa
Website: www.maxxi.art
IG: @museomaxxi

MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Centurt Arts in Rome, Italy, launches its Design Collection, with an international preview at Alcova MIAMI.
The vision behind this new Design Collection will be presented by Lorenza Baroncelli, Director of MAXXI’s Architecture Department during a talk with Joseph Grima, cofounder of Alcova, together with Eleni Petaloti (Objects of Common Interest), Kostas Lambridis and Stefano Fusani, all of whose work has been recently acquired by the Museum (5 December 2023 at 5 PM, 770 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami FL).

MAXXI is the first National museum in Italy dedicated to contemporary creativity.
Designed by Zaha Hadid, it is a great architectural work conceived as a modern roman forum: it produces and hosts exhibitions of art, architecture, design and photography, as well as lectures and talks with artists, architects and leading figures of our time.
Two souls coexist in it, as represented by the Art and the Architecture Departments. In 2023, with the appointment of Lorenza Baroncelli as Director of MAXXI Architettura, MAXXI
has started a more structured reflection on design, both historical and contemporary.
This aims to devise specific exhibition projects dedicated to past masters and at the same time establish a Design Collection which reflects contemporary design.
The concept behind the new MAXXI Design Collection is a deep reflection on what design has become today. The Collection will be as diversified as the fields in which the discipline expresses itself: from industrial design to material research, from immaterial design to anonymous design, up to the more experimental collectible design, made up of unique pieces or limited editions that closely resemble the art world.
The selection of authors and works will be guided by both a temporal factor, since only works produced before 2000 will be acquired, and a spatial factor, not intended as a geographical matter, but instead as a strong relationship with Italian culture, that will be favored.

Meillart X Polcha /
"French getaway at the Seaside Motel"

Designer: Meillart X Polcha
Collaborators: Gallery B, Spaceless Gallery
Website: meillart.com/collections/pocha-x-meillart
IG: @meillart @polcha_paris

Meillart unveils Polcha at Alcova Miami.
After several chance encounters at art and design events (Paris Design Week, Alcova in Milan, etc.), Marie, Charlotte and Pauline eventually decided to combine their visions and talents to create something strikingly innovative.
It all came together at a vernissage earlier this year. Polcha had just had three of its creations exhibited at the Mobilier National when Marie suggested a collaboration. That way, Meillart could help shine the spotlight on the art pieces of the future, made using ancestral craft techniques.
"Through this collaboration, we wanted to highlight the key pieces of tomorrow, fashioned using ancestral arts and crafts techniques. We wanted to reveal the ability of artcrafts to reinvent traditions and work on highly expressive and decorative universes like Polcha, building on their foundations: working with the hand."

Founded by Marie d’Hoffschmidt and Alfred de Franssu, Meillart is a platform that sources and showcases exceptional furniture, lighting and decoration. Careful curation is Meillart’s mantra, as it strives to offer extraordinary, handcrafted and custom-made objects.

Polcha studio, founded in 2021 by Pauline Leyravaud and Charlotte Tarbouriech, explores design’s many facets’, from furniture creation to interior design. It does so with an eco-conscious, experimental approach.

Natural Material Studio /
"Natural Material Studio"

Designer: Bonnie Hvillum
Website: naturalmaterialstudio.com
IG: @natural.material.studio

Highlighting the ability of Natural Material Studio's own bio-textiles to diffuse and spread light, their Lighting Works are for the first time exhibited in US at Design Miami with the Italian platform Alcova.
“From a position where we invent, create and use new, natural materials we are determined to understand how we can design in collaboration with nature and the natural occurrences that happen within these organic processes. We are seeking to find the balancing point between human and natures own agency.” - Bonnie Hvillum

The Lighting Works series LW-B005-1-7 forms the fifth iteration of an ongoing investigation into light sculptures by Natural Material Studio. Led by creative director Bonnie Hvillum, the studio has used their bio-textiles within a number of spatial installations and commissions for companies like CALVIN KLEIN, Restaurant NOMA, Snohetta, Adidas and more, noting the unique semi-transparent qualities and the visual depth produced when combined with both natural and artificial illumination.
Highlighting the ability of Natural Material Studio's own bio-textiles to diffuse and spread light, their Lighting Works utilize tension and suspension to create sculptural works that balance organic textures with simple forms. Created from a mixture of bio-polymers, natural softeners and chalk, natural variations – rich streaks, bubbles and shifts in transparency – are instilled throughout a production process. Combined with cool-toned LED illumination, the Lighting Works continue investigations by Natural Material Studio into the forming of objects that balance natural and human agency - opening new understandings towards the ambiguous boundary point between art and design, along with creating new methods that promote a more fluid creative tradition alongside natures own processes.
“We want to take part in creating a new design agenda and tradition - one that we can look back on in 50 years time and be proud of. A movement that holds courage and will, and the long vision when it comes to creating a better and exciting future complete with more experimental design, more disruption, and more innovation.” - Bonnie Hvillum

From her studio and workshop south of Copenhagen (DK), creative director Bonnie Hvillum has transformed years of immersive material and interaction research into Natural Material Studio. Leading a small and dedicated team, the output of Natural Material Studio aims to expand our collective understanding of material conceptions through artistic research, design, and spatial installations. Collaborations and commissions allow the studio to work cross-disciplinary and systemically, turning research orientated processes into works and exhibitions that explore phenomenological and speculative themes in relation to materials, cultural norms, nature and potential futures. The clients of the studio ranges from Adidas to Snohetta and further to Design Museum Denmark.
“With our cross-disciplinary and systemic way of working we aim to bring the collaboration to the forefront, and set the agenda for how we believe design and art should synergize.” - Bonnie Hvillum.
Their work revolves around the principles of circular design – reuse, recycle, renew and rethink. Through a material-led approach centered around the properties and qualities of often discarded or under-utilized natural resources, Natural Material Studio explore material limitations and opportunities in order to create novel design solutions that contain a highly artistic voice.

NM3 /
"HOMECORE"

Designer: NM3
Website: nm3.xyz
IG: @nm3.xyz

Homecore is an installation of functional objects from domestic and work environments. Homecore is Hannes Meyer's new "Co-op Interieur" where private and work life merge. Homecore is an architectural exaltation of computational schematism.
Against coziness for a new gravitas and sobriety.

NM3 is a design company based in Milan. NM3 is a double sided entity, both a design brand and a consultancy agency which does architecture, interior, product, and custom furniture design.
NM3 believes in modernism as a form of expression. We trust functionalism as problem solving. We wants to extract specificity through the strict ordinary: common elements, average industrial techniques, raw materials. We deal with form and composition, believing in ordinary abstractness as a source of infinite possibilities.

Objects for Objects /
"Trophy Room"

Designer: Leonard Bessemer
Website: www.objectsforobjects.com
IG: @objectsforobjects

Los Angeles design studio Objects for Objects introduces Trophy Room, an exhibition that reimagines ornamental, ceremonial objects as functional furnishings. Featuring a shelf, table, chair, mirror, floor lamp, and two sconces completely made out of traditional trophy parts, Objects for Objects injects humor into everyday furniture while bringing value to underestimated design materials.
The vibe of the room is that of a 1970s high school basement trophy room. Covered with linoleum tile floors and dense curtains, the trophy-inspired furnishings stand as a bygone moment of glory frozen in time. With statue-like multi-tiered shelves and tables, and embellished light fixtures, the pieces are made for ogling, but also everyday use.
Embracing the Americana setting and the fanfare of Miami Art Week, The presentation reinterprets traditionally tacky materials and symbolic forms as objects worthy of appreciation and practical use. The multi-colored trophy columns supporting the shelf and floor lamp create a quilt-like effect reminiscent of classic domestic craft while the table’s holographic orange columns have hot rod sensibilities. Trophy Room is a new step for Bessemer–who’s become known for his playful, yet skillfully crafted wood furnishings–but the studio’s humorous approach never ceases to evoke deep feelings of nostalgia and create unsuspectingly sophisticated statement pieces.

Objects for Objects is the design playground of Leonard Bessemer. The studio was founded in Los Angeles in 2018 as an outlet for Leonard’s personal designs and expressions he produced in the after-hours of running his fabrication business. The studio’s sole focus now is to create objects that make you laugh or cry or smile when you enter a room; to make furniture with personality, and furniture that means something.
Objects for Objects has produced a limited edition collection for Urban Outfitters x Clever, shown at Collectible in Brussels, and was awarded a spot on Sight Unseen’s American Design Hot List. His work has been featured in Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, and Domino.

Objects of Common Interest /
"Dry garden"

Designer: Eleni Petaloti & Leonidas Trampoukis
Website: objectsofcommoninterest.com
IG: @objects_of_common_interest

The installation creates an environment that blends the aesthetics of Miami's urban landscape and architecture with its vibrant moments and contrasts.
Set in a predominantly blue-purple environment, which represents the twilight hours when the city comes alive, the installation deconstructs the unique urban aesthetics through color and light.
Rock-like seatings, produced in different colors are placed around freestanding light panels that bright up the space and give a glowing effect to the objects around, an immersion into the city’s color palette celebrating the sun's role in shaping the city's character.
The creation of Lithos pieces was a chapter in OoCI’s exploration of craftsmanship and handcrafted techniques, that took place over the last few months in their resin workshop in Athens. Blending their own design language with innovative yet traditional artistry they have been focusing on the ethereal properties of resin to achieve distinct forms of their language and a spectrum of unlimited color possibilities.

Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis are a duo operating the studio Objects of Common Interest, working within the realm of art and design and architecture, blending projects in scale from objects and installations to interactive immersive environments and interior spaces. They are also founding partners of the sibling studio LOT office for architecture and are based between New York and Athens. Leonidas and Eleni share a common vision in flowing seamlessly through interdisciplinary practices focusing on strong concepts that blur the boundaries between the artistic and the pragmatic, between form and abstraction, the tangible and intangible merging their strong backgrounds in architecture and art. Their work has been widely featured in the press and they were among the judges for Wallpaper* Design Awards for 2023. In the year 2022, they were named ‘Designers of the year’ and won the Wallpaper* Design award 2022. For the last two consecutive years, they are honorees for the AD100 list 2022 of the top designers and architects and they also won the design prize 2021 for experimentation by Designboom Awards.

OYAY /
"Stillness is My Lamborghini"

Designer: NiFe (Jennifer) Lucey-Brzoza
Collaborators: Fragrance: Noat, Sound: Chris Brokaw
Website: oyay.co
IG: @studio.oyay

"Stillness is My Lamborghini" is a 7-day immersive, durational performance, and installation.
At the center of the installation, in the space between, a body moves slowly, methodically, in a monotonous act of weaving collective desires. Surrounded by an ever growing accumulation, the center remains open. The stillness in the space between available at any moment.
A body, a perishable room, an enclosure made from illusion. Entrails of desires are strung over and around an open frame, growing, swelling, bulking over the durational installation. A red sinew, a strand of lifeforce, a blood letting, is used to weave, amass, and heap the refuse of yearning.
The material is ephemeral and fragile by nature, it will not last. Commonly used to hold and protect what is gathered and accumulated, it now contains the stillness at the center of the installation.
This is a new luxury. A divining of the ephemeral invisible. A stillness that opens and cuts. In suspended seeking what remains? Can contentment be littered, cluttered, stored, strewn, shined, wrapped, discarded?
The space is held in a soundtrack by Chris Brokaw which opens a landscape, infinite and rhythmic. The sound becomes the quiver that underlies and expands in all directions.

Oyay believes in cultivating the weird. We champion following intuition and the latitude to be in a constant evolution. Oyay resists categories, it is fluid, unisex, inclusive, and always looking to the horizon. We are in constant choreography with this ever-changing world, which inspires us to push conceptual boundaries.
Oyay is an independent studio spanning many disciplines. Collaborative and global by nature, each project is an opportunity to bring something fresh into the world. A collective of aesthetic thinkers, we specialize in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, installation design, and graphic design for expansive-minded commercial and cultural clients.

PALMA /
"PALMA presented by Verso"

Designer: Lorenzo Lo Schiavo, Cleo Döbberthin
Collaborators: Verso Works (Amauri Aguiar)
Website: palmapalma.com.br
IG: @palma_palma_palma_
@verso_works

Palma has the pleasure to present its first furniture collection: "Five pieces - Collection Nº1". Meticulously handcrafted, the creations represent experimentations between different shapes, textures, materials and artisanal techniques, both traditional and self developed by the studio. Exemplifying such approach is the “Pinheiro” floor lamp which explores the relationship between fundamental forms and traditional processes with new and unusual materials, the “B de Bola” coffee table which revisits the tradition of marble trompe-l’oeil through sculptural means and the “Marshmallow" occasional table with its egg-shell mosaic top finished in glossy lacquer and marshmallow shaped legs.

Palma is a creative studio focused on architecture, interior design, furniture design and graphic design established in São Paulo, Brazil in 2020 by Cleo Döbberthin, artist, and Lorenzo Lo Schiavo, architect. Palma's work establishes a dialogue between these practices, hand-crafts and the juxtaposition of multiple styles and epochs, uniting the methodology of architecture with the experimentation and process based practice of an artists’ studio.
The studio’s production, as well as it's research on materials, finishes and techniques is mainly done inside the office/studio, where the duo also organizes exhibitions and launches their furniture collections as part of the “Design na Barra Funda”, an initiative by Palma that aims at fortifying the design community in their neighborhood.

RICH AYBAR /
"RAWORKSHOP BY RICH AYBAR"

Designer: Rich Aybar
Website:raworkshop.org
IG: @r.a.workshop
@richaybar

The collection of gold tone incandescent objects in RUBBERWORKS are not a product of postmodern alchemy, but formed from organic primordial ooze. Cast in rubber, lamps, vases and benches assume elementary and historicized shapes that accentuate their raw materiality. The functional and tactile designs invite us to marvel at their resistant, resplendent, and sumptuous textures. Suspended in captivating amber silhouettes, the collection provokes an inherent attraction to this mysterious, polymorphic substance triggering our associations with both the materiality and iconography of the chosen medium, rubber.

Sculptor and furniture designer Richard Aybar, the creative force behind RA Workshop, masterfully engages with materiality in his evocative creations. Born in New York City, Aybar explored his passion for romance literature at Wesleyan University before founding his studio in 2019.
Aybar's engagement with materiality is a cornerstone of his work, as he expertly navigates the delicate balance between natural and synthetic elements. His profound understanding of the tactile qualities and historical context of his chosen materials lends a unique depth to his creations.

Samuel Aguirre /Jesse Groom / Yuxuan Huang / Felicia Neuhof / Lisa Sacco /
"Momentum"

Designer: Samuel Aguirre, Jesse Groom, Yuxuan Huang, Felicia Neuhof, Lisa Sacco
Website: momentumalcova.com
IG: @sam_indaman
@jessewouldwork
@yuxuan_huang__
@hi___felicia
@lisasaccodesign

Momentum is a collection of objects presenting a dynamic approach to materiality. Through experimental craftsmanship, designers Samuel Aguirre, Jesse Groom, Yuxuan Huang, Felicia Neuhof, and Lisa Sacco push the boundaries of furniture typographies. This body of work is a testament to a transformative process where creators explore a novel approach to material, environmental impact, process, and future thought. We invite you on a journey of discovery by sharing the work and process of the artist.

Unified by an experimental approach to craft, designers Samuel Aguirre, Jesse Groom, Yuxuan Huang, Felicia Neuhof, Lisa Sacco present a collection of objects which offer a dynamic approach to materiality. Hailing from the renowned craft-based Furniture Program at Rhode Island School of Design; these artists decontextualize familiar furniture forms by challenging traditional ways of manipulating materials. Their work rekindles a sense of wonder to forge a deeper consideration of the objects we live with.

4 Spaces Textiles Zurich /
"The Textile Jukebox"

Designer: Michele Rondelli, Justin Morin
Collaborators: Nisi B Home Miami
Website: 4spaces.ch
IG: @4spaces
@hellojustinmorin
@nisi_b_home

Each 4Spaces collection serves as a heartfelt ode to both touch and textiles. The Atelier collection stands as an impassioned homage to the artisans who make all this possible. In an ongoing pursuit of redefining luxury, 4Spaces designs remarkably vibrant textiles, drawing inspiration from haute couture in the fashion world. Backed by an extensive background in crafting groundbreaking textiles for the premium market, every creation is meticulously crafted by hand and machine in our ateliers, spanning across both Italy and overseas locations. Infused with care and devotion, these creations honor the principles of time, exceptional quality, and unadulterated opulence.

4Spaces: Crafting Timeless Textiles with Character
Under the guidance of Creative Director Michele Rondelli, 4Spaces curates timeless fabrics for a discerning clientele of designers and architects. With over 20 years of textile expertise and collaborations with global brands, 4Spaces introduced its unique collection in 2008. We partner with architects and designers worldwide to create bespoke textile solutions. Our divisions, 4Spaces Contract and 4Spaces Atelier, offer customized solutions and exciting artist collaborations.
Committed to Swiss heritage and sustainability, we prioritize local production within a 500-kilometer radius. Our design ethos centers on simplicity, elegance, and functionality, guided by Michele Rondelli's creative vision. 4Spaces breaks free from industry clichés, crafting fabrics with true character, earned recognition through international design accolades.

SPREAD /
"Colored"

Designer: Haruna Yamada and Hirokazu Kobayashi
Website: spread-web.jp
IG: @spread_tokyo

Different Worlds
From distance, it looks like a colorful abstraction. Looking closer, you will see that it is made up of 196 QR codes. Each of them leads to a government website. When you scan these national flag inspired QR codes, the entrance to country pops up and you have the pleasure of encountering an unconnected culture. It is like a 'square globe' that represents our society today.

Life Stripe
The project uses twenty-one colors to record daily activities over the course of a 24-hour day. When helping a friend who had withdrawn from society, it inspired a new project which we recorded the daily activities of different people and converted them into colored bands that could be displayed. Everyone’s life is equally beautiful. At present, we have collected a single day data from over 150,000 people. 

Much Peace, Love and Joy
This work is an installation born out of a desire to create joy with color. Special letterpress printing techniques are used to print gradations in vivid colors, each one being unique. The printed material is torn by hand to create different shapes, arousing different memories and expanding the imaginations.

Spread is a creative unit founded by Haruna Yamada and Hirokazu Kobayashi. It fuses the long-sighted environmental approach of landscape design with the vivid visual techniques of graphic design, incorporating environment, living creatures, objects, time, history, glyphs, and memory into their creative work as they strive to expand (“spread”) whatever subject they take on. By facing society and engaging in the act of creation, they have sought to change the present and create new experiences. Their projects use color as the primary medium, and by dismantling and rebuilding memory, we spread multidisciplinary creations to the future.

Studio Adarsh Nellore /
"Unobjects™"

Designer: Adarsh Nellore
Website: adarshnellore.com/artwork
IG: @adarshnellore

According to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, we as a society have come to value data that describes a physical object more than the object itself, making the digitally implied more important than the physically actual. Han calls these informational objects 'non-things.'
Designer Adarsh Nellore investigates the physical form and presence of non-things by crafting them through his novel sculptural technique, with which he is able to autonomously reconstruct almost any given form from furniture to human anatomies. His 'Unobjects™' collection, manufactured from recycled Nylon PA 12 and binder-jetted Quartz sand, is comprised of home accessories crafted through photogrammetry, generative algorithms, and additive manufacturing. Through this collection, Adarsh Nellore explores a variety of novel additive manufacturing techniques, demonstrating a new age of design in which data becomes material and forms are determined by machine perception rather than human deduction.

Adarsh Nellore is an artist and designer based in New York City researching machine craft, digital futures, and algorithmic design, having studied Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

Studio Annabelle Schneider /
"BEING IN BED"

Designer: Annabelle Schneider
Collaborators: Basscharity
Website: annabelleschneider.com/bed
IG: @annabellesbubble

"Being in Bed" is an immersive exhibition that transcends the boundaries of physical and digital realms, weaving a profound narrative that explores the bed as the ultimate sanctuary of the future. At the heart of the installation is a site-specific, fabric-reactive mattress installation that invites visitors to embark on a spiritual journey in Virtual Reality, redefining their perception of the bed. In an era characterized by instability and change, the bed emerges as the ultimate place of both collapse and self-reconnection.
Visitors will encounter touchpoints designed to capture the essence of presence within absence. Temperature-reactive sheets serve as canvases, bearing tactile image transfers of digital human traces. Hand-woven emergency foils act as protective capes, creating a harmonious blend of natural and otherworldly experiences. The immersive Virtual Reality component delves into the bed's profound significance, encouraging introspection by blending bodily traces and evocative sounds. Featuring a soundtrack by multiple Grammy-winning producers Basscharity, the ethereal journey encompasses the fundamental elements of life—from blood and sweat to skin and bacteria— coupled with affirmations that celebrate the holistic connection between body, soul, and mind. Informed by visionary designers and thinkers like Beatriz Colomina, who have explored the bed's role in the digital age, "Being in Bed" emerges as a captivating interpretation of the future. The bed, traditionally associated with rest, is redefined as a multi-sensory space capable of fostering both production and reproduction, adapting to the ever-evolving needs of modern life. In an age where technology seeps into our very being, this exhibition underscores the urgency of mindfulness and reconnecting with our natural bodies for balance, ritual, and grounding.


Annabelle Schneider is a Swiss-born, New York-based artist and designer whose interdisciplinary work sparks contemplation on the interplay between physical and virtual spaces. With a background in branding and spatial installations and a keen eye for user journeys, Annabelle’s eponymous studio explores innovative spatial concepts where technology and tactile elements converge to question and enhance one’s sense of comfort, belonging, and well-being.
Annabelle holds a graduate degree in Design Management, an AAS, and an MFA in Interior Design from Parsons, where she currently teaches design studios focused on the future of retail and inclusive spaces. Previous collaborators include Vitra, Laufen, Eyesightgroup and Snarkitecture. Her visionary work and approach has been recognized with a Future100 Interior Design award from Metropolis Magazine and recognition in international publications such as Dezeen, Domus or FRAME.

Studio/ JIALUN XIONG /
"Before the Eclipse"

Designer: Jialun Xiong
Collaborators: Calico Wallpaper Aurora Collection in Eclipse colorway
Website: jialunxiong.com
IG: @jialunxiong
@calicowallpaper

Los Angeles designer Jialun Xiong introduces Before the Eclipse, an immersive solo exhibition with three new celestial-inspired light fixtures (an arched floor lamp, ceiling light, and wall sconces) along with her architectural furnishings, table lamps, and ceramic tableware sets. Designed to emulate the dark vastness of space, Xiong’s exhibition explores the natural curiosity and unexplainable calm of our galaxy with planet-like light fixtures that appear to float in mid-air. Washed in Xiong’s signature black-and-white gradient hues, Before the Eclipse also invites a meditative experience that emphasizes texture, material, and craft–key design traits that often take a backseat to color.
Being her debut solo exhibition, Before the Eclipse is Xiong’s first chance to completely control her environment. Setting the mood with dimly lit fixtures and dark interiors, Xiong creates a contemplative, hypnotic space that makes a bold statement without saying too much. And while Xiong enjoys dictating the nature of her exhibition, she purposely leaves room for interpretation. Much like people’s feelings about space, she anticipates the exhibition to evoke a spectrum of feelings from calm to discomfort. No matter what viewers’ takeaways will be, their reactions demonstrate the subtle power behind Xiong’s work.

Hailing from Chongqing, China, Jialun Xiong is a Los Angeles-based designer exploring ideas of duality and creative restraint in her designs for interiors, furnishings, lighting, and accessories. Graphic, high-drama, and rigorously intentional, Xiong’s design objects push the boundaries of their construction, balancing positive and negative space as a means of heightening the experience of their users. Hovering between weightlessness and weighty, Xiong’s forms inspire a quiet contemplation and gentle focus that keeps one squarely grounded in the present.

Uma /
"Uma Objects"

Designer: Holloway Li, Benni Allan
Collaborators: Coming Soon New York
Sponsor: Polkima Moulded Composites
Website:
IG: @uma.objects
@benniallan
@_hollowayli

Uma presents a collection of its newest productions selected for Alcova in Miami. Back on the scene is the T4 collection, designed by Holloway Li and presented in two classic colourways for Selena Gold Dust Motel: Liquorice Black and Blush Pink. A reflection of London-based Holloway Li’s cinematic approach to design, the modular T4 collection draws on the nostalgic Big Brother house aesthetic at the turn of the millennium and the golden era of the chat show sofa. Joining the event is the newly launched Silo, a composite chair designed by Benni Allan for Uma. A play on weight and space, the design stays true to Allan’s interest in making objects to be engaged with, combining pure forms into an elegant piece with a sculptural presence. The Silo maintains a heavy appearance, whilst being composed entirely of lightweight fibreglass and revealed in its original finish, specially developed with the designer. Multicoloured trimmings from the production process are folded into the gelcoat to produce a finely textured, upcycled, highly durable finish.

Uma is a producer of moulded objects, working collaboratively with designers to develop pieces made to last. Uma is powered by Polkima, a leading manufacturer for moulded composite parts for some of the giants of the automotive industry, including the interior fit-outs of the iconic London buses. As a new furniture label, Uma pushes the boundaries of furniture fabrication and backed by over 30 years of production experience, provides an extraordinary testing ground for designers where their ideas can be realised from start to finish.

UNCHARTED / Caleb Ferris, Forma Rosa Studio, NJ Roseti, Studio Sam Klemick, Tristan Louis Marsh, Wallpaper Projects /
"UNCHARTED"

Designer: Caleb Ferris, Forma Rosa Studio, NJ Roseti, Studio Sam Klemick, Tristan Louis Marsh, Wallpaper Projects
Website: calebferris.com formarosastudio.com njroseti.com studiosamklemick.com tristanlouismarsh.com wallpaperprojects.com
IG: @calebferris @formarosastudio @njroseti @samklemick
@TristanLouisMarsh @wallpaperprojects @terukokushi

Humanity has always been curiously seeking outside the realm of our current knowledge. We constantly race to explore uncharted realms, whether through advancements in technology or our ambitions to venture into new worlds and spaces. In response to this collective longing for something new, six artists have joined forces to present their work in Uncharted. Each artist has embarked on a personal journey into unmapped realms and returned with unique mementos, presented together in an atmosphere of the otherworldly. Rather than a definitive statement on the outcomes of exploring unmapped realms, Uncharted presents an open-ended meditation on the multitudes possible in the process of discovery. As humans we will always strive to venture into new worlds and spaces; Uncharted posits that maintaining a sense of optimistic curiosity in the process can yield delightfully unexpected forms. Uncharted offers viewers a contemplative reflection on the concept of the unknown in a moody, ethereal atmosphere of discovery, where anything is possible.

Born out of a curiosity to seek outside the realm of our current knowledge, Uncharted embarks on a journey into unmapped spheres, featuring six artists from three corners of the country. Across wood, ceramics, metal, and textiles, the six studios were challenged to push their creative boundaries, presenting in Uncharted fresh techniques in their ongoing exploration within their own individual practices. Plumbing the depths of the unfamiliar within their personal creative practices and processes, the six design studios in Uncharted present an exhibition of functional art that offers new perspectives on the unrelenting human impetus to explore new worlds.

Unform Studio /
"The Drip Collection"

Designer: Ryan Twardzik
Website: unformstudio.com
IG: @unformstudio

The Drip Collection is the debut exhibition for Alcova Miami by Pennsylvania-based Unform Studio. Blending the contrasting forms of sleek industrial metal and the organic chaos of pooling paint, Drip Collection brings the vibrant colors of Miami to life as bold collectible furniture. Informed by early American Mahantango Valley painted furniture—and built in the very same Pennsylvania valleys—the Drip Collection takes paint as its basis, but rather than using it as applied decoration, makes paint its entire form.
The Drip Collection explores the idea of improvisation in furniture design—the melding together of random, organic forms with industrial production processes and materials. Taking inspiration from post-war American art in movements like Abstract Expressionism, where artists such as Helen Frankenthaler experimented with relinquishing control to the material and medium at hand, Drip Collection similarly allows the randomness of paint to fuel and structure the form.
Crafted from high grade aluminum and finished in a durable glossy powder coat, the Drip Collection is suitable for both indoor and outdoor usage, ready to add a splash of bold color to whatever space it is poured into.

After years of multidisciplinary design work, Ryan Twardzik launched Unform Studio in 2022 to focus on uniquely designed furniture highlighting the aesthetics and tactility inherent in good design. Through bold, playful expressions, Ryan’s work walks the line between being sculptural and sculpture, always frontloading functionality. An interest in exploring the creative possibilities of contrast informs Ryan’s designs, where historical references collide and methods and materials meet to create something wholly contemporary. At the heart of Twardzik's pieces lies an attention to craft, quality, and a commitment to local manufacturing in his local Pennsylvania, the capital of America’s finest furniture past and present.

WKND Lab /
"Tying Wishes"

Designer: Eunji Jun / Halin Lee
Website: wknd-lab.com
IG: @wkndlab.official

series is a collection of multi-functional furniture, lighting, and wall decoration that highlights the Korean traditional knot-making method interpreted into the contemporary design piece. This experimental project was made by collaborating with a seamstress who worked on bedding for more than 30 years.
The pieces are made with sustainable, animal cruelty-free material to create long fabric pipes of different diameters and lengths from 788cm(310 in) to 3,000cm(1181 in). Then tied in various Korean traditional knots, such as dragonfly knots, a-piece-of-ginger knots, and 3-legged knots.
In the traditional way, knots are made with thin strings that make the final result ‘tiny’ to decorate clothes or some small personal items. On the other hand, the series are more than 1,000,000 times bigger in volume than traditional ones, which makes them not only decorate a space in a unique and versatile manner but also serve as functioning collectible design pieces.
Korean knots meant beyond mere decoration; a present of blessing and wishing luck to their holders. In order to inherit the spirit, series proposes a new way of looking back from a new perspective combined with contemporary aesthetics with the Project name “Tying Wishes”.

WKND Lab, a duo designer studio based in Seoul, Korea. Founded by Eunji Jun and Halin Lee.
Specializes in a diverse range of design disciplines, including material research, object design, furniture design, and art installation.
Focusing on material-driven narratives, WKND Lab communicates their philosophy about the dynamic interplay between design, humanity, and nature.
WKND Lab is committed to crafting designs that are simple yet striking, with a strong emphasis on the unique texture and coloration of the materials they use. WKND Lab hopes to encourage individuals to explore not only aesthetic but also environmentally, culturally, and socially conscious design alternatives.

Zachary A. Design /
"It's not Paper"

Designer: Zac Bitner and Harrison Parkes
Collaborators: Studio A. (at Zachary A.)
Website: zacharyadesign.com
IG: @zacharyadesign

Paper is a collection of sculptural outdoor furniture pieces that look like crumpled paper but are unexpectedly rigid and functional. The pieces start as large format drawings but they later become the molds to cast resin and fiberglass onto. It's an exploration of transposing 2D drawings to the third dimension. It's an exercise of capturing the artist's message in their gestures and drawings and making it permanent. It's mostly, and very honestly, about process.

Founded by Zac Bitner in 2010, Zachary A. Design is a furniture brand based in Chicago. With a focus on the unexpected, they push the boundaries of material finish and refine age-old production techniques to be used in simple, bold designs. Each piece is hand-cast in Chicago and designed to be used indoors and outdoors in all seasons. Studio A. is the art branch of the company. Here, the team does experiments and studies of materials and processes. The Paper collection, designed by Zac Bitner and Harrison Parkes, and signals a graduation to a gallery worthy level of sculptural furniture.