Design duo Adam and Arthur has released a monochromatic cabinet with an undulating silhouette that references the common art motif of a mother next to her child.
The two-metre-high cupboard is the result of a collaboration between French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur and Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum, who have been working together under the Adam and Arthur moniker since 2015.
Adam and Arthur has released the Mother and Child Cabinet
The Mother and Child Cabinet is decorated using straw marquetry, a craft technique that involves forming patterns out of flattened ribbons of straw and embedding them into furniture.
In this case, 16,000 individual pieces of white straw were inlaid into the cupboard to give it a faceted pearlescent sheen, broken up by interspersing black bands. The black stripes are also made of straw, dyed in-house by the designers.
Undulating lines of marquetry are amplified by the cupboard's shape
The cabinet's two humps were designed to suggest the silhouette of a mother and child ? a theme that is frequently seen in paintings and sculptures throughout history.
This reference is made more apparent when the cabinet is opened via its two sets of double doors, revealing semi-circular details on the interior that are reminiscent of the head and shoulders of two figures.
Semi-circular details on the interior suggest two figures
Straw is a versatile and ecologically "wonderful material", according to Adam and Arthur, that can be grow...