Apparatus draws on Persian influences for Act III homeware and lighting collection
An intricately decorated Persian box provided a starting point for the latest range of designs from New York studio Apparatus.
For its third collection, Act III, the brand's creative director Gabriel Hendifar looked to his personal heritage for influences.
He began with a box decorated with the Persian Khatam inlaying technique, which his grandmother brought with her to the US after leaving Iran as a political refugee in 1979.
The object sparked an exploration into artefacts and aesthetics from across the region, and resulted in a variety of designs all linked in some way to this culture.
"As a first-generation American born after the Islamic Revolution, Gabriel's moments of intersection with Iran and its culture were experienced at a distance," said a statement from Apparatus. "Passed down as an idealised and melancholy memory, it is kept alive through storytelling, food and music." "This collection is an attempt to create a tangible connection to this place suspended in time, while also imagining it as a futurist fantasy," it added.
The collection includes five series of furniture, lighting and homeware. The first is a set of lamps called Median, and is typified by planes of translucent alabaster stone intersected by fluted brass elements. The table and pendant models are designed to evoke traditional Middle Eastern jewellery.
"The stone glows from a light source that remains hidden, illuminating the relationship between the solid and ...
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