Digital design startup Canoa has commissioned and exhibited vessel design concepts by 27 artists and designers based in San Francisco.
Presented during San Francisco Design Week 2024, the Vessel group show was curated by local interior designer Anand Sheth in order to showcase the wide range of talents that operate in the city, including sculptors and furniture designers.
Canoa and interior designer Anand Sheth put on a group show during San Francisco Design Week
"Vessel explored myriad ways an artist may interpret the idea of a vessel as literally defined or personally interpreted," Sheth said.
"The concept of a vessel has been with me for a while, it's how I consider my relationship to myself, my immigrant family, my city, my industry. I was eager to explore this personal value to people who share the Bay Area with me, and I knew they would interpret and iterate on it in fascinating ways." According to Sheth, only five of the twenty-seven exhibitors actually designed vases.
Furniture designer Caleb Ferris explored the sometimes indiscriminate use of mythological symbolism in historical European decorative arts in a walnut and silk vase with serpent ornaments.
Joe Ferriso made wall-mounted cherry wood artwork, while Othr Space, Lynette Nicole Becantur and NJ Roseti made vessels
Design duo Soft Geometry created a vase out of curved steel tubing so that there could be two openings to hold flowers or other items.
Working with paper mache vellum, cotton rop...