Misha Kahn's Scrappy Cabinet is made from trash and woven grass
Misha Kahn worked alongside basket weavers in Swaziland, Africa to create this cabinet made from grass, trash and stained glass found on a beach.
Kahn's cabinet featured among a collection he showed at Design Miami, where maximalist design "for apocalyptic times" was a recurring theme.
The New York artist based the Scrappy cabinet on the "sense of a treasure hunt", using a number of unusual materials to create the abstract form.
"The process of weaving a basket makes everything feel so precious to me because it's so methodical and slow," he told Dezeen. "In a way weaving with trash felt like a nice way to disrupt that, but also make the trash very precious."
Working with a collective of basket weavers in Swaziland, a landlocked area in southern Africa, Kahn used grass to form the main woven structure. However, as the country is facing a severe drought and grass is scarce, Kahn had to find a second material help shape the cabinet and introduced pieces of rubbish.
The trash was then incorporated into the weave, with larger parts forming the cabinet doors and smaller parts adding colour and decoration.
Pieces of stained glass found on a beach were used to add further decoration to the two semicircular doors.
The Scrappy cabinet is the latest piece by the artist, who describes his aesthetic as "uncomfortable".
"If I know I like something it won't keep my attention to finish it ? so things that strike me as a little cheesy...
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| Interiors project of the year: Piazza Dell'Ufficio | Dezeen Awards 2019 |
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