A colourful cashmere sofa, bronze chandeliers and stained-glass sculptures are among the mix of plush and sculptural objects American designer Misha Kahn is displaying at New York gallery Friedman Benda.
Marking the Brooklyn artist's third presentation in the Chelsea gallery, Soft Bodies, Hard Spaces is intended to offer a positive reflection on the relationship between humans and machines.
Walls and display plinths are covered in fuzzy, white yarn on one side of the exhibition
"I feel like this show is really me trying to make sort of an optimistic design show, humans and machines collaborating nicely, materials collaborating nicely, everything feels sort of empathetic to each other," he told Dezeen.
"The exhibition title references Kahn's interest in the incongruity of what he refers to as our 'strange, soft bodies' within the 'hard, violent right angles' in which we reside," Friedman Benda added. While the other side, they are coated with sand and dark paint
The gallery space is divided into two distinct areas designed to reflect the juxtaposition in the exhibition's name. On one side the walls and display plinths are covered in soft, white yarn, while the other is coated with sand that has been glued and then covered in a dark paint with an airbrush.
Objects on show employ a range of materials and methods including metal casting, hand weaving, digital modelling and glass collaging.
It features a mix of unusually shaped and curved designs, such as th...