Charles Trevelyan exhibits pebble-like benches and spindly tables in New York
Works by Australian designer Charles Trevelyan, including skeletal-looking furniture and monolithic marble benches, are currently on show at New York's Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
Trevelyan, who runs London-based Studio Trevelyan, came up with the concept for the Fuse benches when walking along the coastline in his native Australia. He spotted "surf-rounded pebbles that had fractured off from the larger outcrops" and envisioned assembling them together.
"The concept that formed was the theoretical exercise of picking up a handful of these stones and then crushing them together in your hands such that they fuse into a singular sculptural form," Trevelyan told Dezeen.
The benches are made from Hotavlje stone sourced from a quarry in Slovenia ? which turned out to be located just 50 metres from the stoneworks where the pieces were produced.
A large chunk of the material was sliced into thick slabs and refined into pebble shapes with a mix of computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting and hand-finishing. Cutouts were left in the individual segments so that they slot back together, creating the two different sized benches.
Contrasting these chunky designs are delicate bronze tables and lamps, which also feature in the exhibit at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York ? Trevelyan's first solo show in the US.
Spindly and knobbly legs allude to natural forms ? although less explicitly than the marble designs ? and form coils around some of the sta...
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