Skeletal stools and a blobby, monolithic table and chair features in this series of furniture by French designer Elissa Lacoste.
Lacoste drew on natural landscapes and human forms to create the new works, which include the Dolomies coffee table and chair set, and the Soft Beings stools.
"I like morphing the mineral, the vegetal with the animal to give a grotesque aesthetic to my objects," Lacoste told Dezeen.
The monolithic Dolomies set have blobby surfaces that resemble skin
Each comprises a metal base covered in a mixture of silicone and stone powders that Lacoste has sculpted in various shapes.
"The shaping of the surface is a subtle and delicate modelling gesture that is a sensual caress of the materials," said Lacoste. "It is by working the material in the manner of a classical sculptor that I decide on a shape by discovering and uncovering it as I make it."
Lacoste hand-sculptured the silicone mixed with clay powder to create the textures. Photography by Antoine Maillier
For the monolithic Dolomies duo, the silicone is finished with a clay powder to create ridges, bumps and swirls.  The final result resembles igneous rock, a formation of hardened lava.
"Dolomies are mainly informed by nature, bringing to the domestic inside shapes that are encountered in the natural outside," Lacoste told Dezeen. "They manifest as material singularities to recall the space of a cave or geological concretions from a wild landscape that h...