Niko Koronis' resin furniture series looks like carved blocks of soap
Geometric blocks of resin form this four-piece furniture collection by Niko Koronis, who took design cues from the work of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.
The family of furniture, called the G Collection, comprises the GBC bench, the GRT coffee table, the GSD console table and the GST stool that also acts as a side table.
Niko Koronis' furniture collection includes the GSD console table. Top: the items are meant to look like "small scale architectural entities"
Each custom design was inspired by modernist architect Scarpa, whose work was heavily informed by both Venetian and Japanese landscapes and culture, and often featured sharp lines and graphic shapes.
With this in mind, Koronis designed each stepped furniture item to look like "small scale architectural entities", characterised by an emphasis on linear geometries. The GST stool or side table is also included in the series
"One has to love Scarpa, for many different reasons," Koronis told Dezeen.
"Apart from his charismatic personality, his unique formal and material aesthetic that stood in contrast to his contemporaries' loud and artificial early postmodernism is something that has been a constant inspiration for many architects and designers alike."
"If one considers his most famous work, the Brion cemetery, it is easy to understand his adoration for the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Albers, Joseff Hoffmann, and his fascination with elementary and sometimes repetitive...
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