Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger took a spiritual approach when producing the furniture for his latest exhibition, 12 Chairs For Meditation.
Exhibited at Nilufar's Viale Lancetti gallery during Milan design week, the show was developed around a vision that the founder of Reisinger Studio experienced during meditation.
Reisinger exhibited 12 Chairs For Meditation at Nilufar Gallery
This led him to design a series of 12 chairs, featuring different forms and materials, which he arranged in a formation based on Orion, one of the most prominent celestial constellations.
These were presented around a mosaic mural depicting a circle of 12 apples, seemingly floating in a blue sky filled with clouds, while a meditative piece of music composed by Reisinger played in the background. The designer created 12 different chairs for the show
The designer told Dezeen that the vision came shortly after he began taking lessons in meditation from a professional tutor.
"I was already meditating before that, but she taught me how to meditate in a very specific way," he said.
The show was curated by Nilufur founder Nina Yashar
Reisinger's vision saw him looking down over the Nilufar exhibition space from the top corner ? a perspective that no one ever experiences in reality. He described the view as "very blurred, but I could see how things were".
After successfully pitching the idea to Nilufur founder Nina Yashar, the curator for the show, the designer started producing ...