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- Ah Um Studio’s NYCxDesign Debut at ICFF’s Wished will showcase its prolonged Jura Assortment, together with the Jura Espresso Desk, Stool, Aspect Desk, Mirror, Pedestal, and Bench from 2024 and the brand new Jura Eating Chair, Aspect Desk, Membership Chair, Tiled Accent Chair, and Tiled Ground Lamp.
- On the coronary heart of Zack Nestel-Patt’s picket and tiled furnishings is an embrace of lived-in texture and a sentimentality for course of, expressed in unconventional silhouettes and numerous supplies.
Rising furnishings designer Ah Um Design Studio is readying for its NYCxDesign debut, presenting an prolonged Jura Assortment at ICFF’s Wished group exhibition.
Central to the aesthetic character and inventive intentions of the handmade line is founder Zack Nestel-Patt’s love for texture. “I’m obsessive about texture,” he mentioned in an announcement. “Not simply texture as in a tactile facet to a fabric, however texture as an emotional element to designing and dwelling with objects.”
Seen craftsmanship and texture are foundational to the Ah Um’s model, represented in mixtures of grainy wooden varieties and warm-hued tiles in asymmetrical configurations and jagged silhouettes. “Having the ability to see and really feel the remnants of the arms that made or designed one thing imbues an object with feeling, historical past, and thought,” Zack shared.
Within the new Tiled Accent Chair, individuality is expressed by the asymmetrical arms, whereas tactility is represented by the tiled end — a fabric selection typically reserved for kitchen surfaces, bogs, and public areas. In distinction, the Jura eating chair facilities on completely different expressions of wooden, juxtaposing jagged cuts, curvilinear cut-outs, and rectangular legs. It follows the shapes utilized in a small picket aspect desk supported by two jagged sides and the big mirror, adorned with a zig-zag trim surrounding the body.
Starting with the Jura Espresso Desk, Stool, Aspect Desk, Mirror, Pedestal, and Bench in 2024, the unique vary marked Zack’s first main expertise with woodworking exterior of crafting hardwood cremation urns. For the gathering’s prolonged vary, Ah Um Design Studio will current an array of latest items, together with a Eating Chair, Aspect Desk, Membership Chair, Tiled Accent Chair, and Tiled Ground Lamp, at Wished Sales space #W854 from Could 18-20. Forward of ICFF, the Tiled Ground Lamp might be displayed at Public Data on Could 15 for Howdy Human and Openhouse’s joint exhibition.
See the gallery above for a more in-depth have a look at the Jura Assortment.
