Local designer Micah Rosenblatt has debuted a collection of steel furniture covered in light green automotive paint that was informed by the architectural styles found throughout New York City.
The City Block collection encompasses 16 pieces of furniture, including a dining room table, chairs, sculptural floor lamps, and a loveseat, all predominantly made of steel and glass bricks.
Micah Rosenblatt has debuted a collection of furniture informed by New York City
"[The expressions] are based on the cityscape and my relationship to it," Rosenblatt told Dezeen. "It's the forms that you would look out and see on your horizon via whatever time period you're in."
"I'm primarily a metalworker," he continued. "So [I used] metal as the language to play with that both as a construction material, but also as the decorative elements as well." It encompasses a total of 16 pieces
Rosenblatt said the pieces translate the city's forms into a smaller, domestic scale.
Viewed together, the lamps in the collection create a mini skyline and are made up of simple geometric forms including a slim rectangle and a right triangle.
It includes floor lamps, a dining table, and chairs
They were created with stacked glass bricks encased within steel frames and illuminated throughout. The Volute Lamp is topped with the capital of an Ionic column imprinted within its steel cap.
The column-like pattern can be found again in the Column and High Rise Column chairs that ...