When it comes to denim, our Superfuture ears are all pricked up. We’re talking the recently opened and very first solo exhibition of rising design star Harry Nuriev (1985) at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. The show, simply entitled Denim and staged in collaboration with design consultancy Aurélie Julien Collectible, sees the iconic material explored through a body of new designs by Nuriev. The Russian-born designer once invented Transformatism, a style focus – perhaps even a self-proclaimed philosophy? – which is centred on form, and, yes indeed, the transformation of that form into another form. Needless to say, the designs on display embody the designer’s ongoing exploration, and questions our relationship to both furniture and furniture as an object. The Denim scenography sees an apartment setting furnished with modular pieces that form a matrix of sorts, composed of several separate and interchangeable elements. As such, the pieces have been designed to adapt to our daily life at home which has seen a number of key changes over the past few years—for one, the comfy Sofa Pool is meant to be a multiple space where eat, work, and yes, also rest and play (on through May 13).
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
54 rue de la Verrerie (Marais)
75004 Paris
Telephone: +33 1 42788092
Tue-Sat 10am-7pm
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