Virgil Abloh channels brutalism for concrete Efflorescence furniture series
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has created a graffiti-covered furniture collection for Paris studio Galerie Kreo, which takes cues from brutalism and the urban landscape.
Titled Efflorescence, the 20-piece furniture collection comprises coffee tables, consoles, seats, vases and mirrors.
Described by Abloh as being positioned somewhere between sculpture and useful object, each piece is formed from concrete and features a punctured surface.
As a "reflection of our generation", the designs have been spray-painted with the designer's brightly coloured free-hand markings, reminiscent of city graffiti in a bid to evoke "street culture".
The collection takes its name from efflorescence, which Abloh refers to as the "flower bomb effect", in which salt moves to the surface of a porous material to form a white coating. Abloh suggested that this process would affect the furniture items if they were placed in an urban environment.
Each of the pieces are on display at Galerie Kreo's exhibition space in Paris, France, in what is the designer's first solo show in a gallery dedicated to contemporary design.
As a nod to brutalist architecture, all 20 pieces boast stark, monolithic shapes. The sloping surface of Bench 2 is based on the design of skate ramps, further alluding to the urban environment.
Galerie Kreo describes the object as "a Trojan Horse dedicated to the deconstruction of the generic and conversations on the here and now".
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