The Exquisite Corpse collection comprises three handmade furniture pieces decorated with a modern take on straw marquetry in vibrant, custom-dyed colours.
The line, which has been shortlisted for a Dezeen Awards 2020 in the furniture design category, is a collaboration between Australian industrial designer Adam Goodrum and French marquetry artisan Arthur Seigneur, who make up design duo Adam and Arthur.
The straw used to create the inlays was hand-dyed. Photo is by Victoria Zschommler
Their Exquisite Corpse collection comprises a tallboy, a console and a credenza, and was named after the French parlour game Cadavre Exquis, invented by members of the avant-garde Surrealist art movement in 1925.
"In the game, a player sketches a body part or other image on a piece of paper, before folding the paper to conceal what they've drawn and passing it on to the next player, and so on," Seigneur told Dezeen. "The completed figures tend to be wildly inventive and frequently bizarre," he added.
"The game sums up our collaborative process and captures the wonderful tension in our back and forth decision making, with form, patterns and colours bound only by the mandate to celebrate straw marquetry's dazzling visual effects."
The Archant console is made from birch ply and brass with a straw marquetry inlay
Adam and Arthur worked with artisan cabinet makers to build the furniture, which was then covered with straw marquetry ? the 17th-century art of creating ha...