Korean designer Wonmin Park has pieced together sheets of patinated aluminium to create this collection of furniture, featuring textures that resemble paintbrush strokes.

Park's Plain Cuts will be exhibited at New York's Carpenters Workshop Gallery from early next year, following another showcase of metal furniture by French artist Vincent Dubourg.
While Dubourg's pieces look like they're exploding, Park's collection comprises minimal rectangular elements fitted neatly together.

The intersecting planes feature pale and dark hues, and a mottled texture created by patina ? a coloured film that naturally forms on metal surfaces when exposed to atmospheric elements over a long period of time.

"The idea of this new collection Plain Cuts is to provide a minimalist and drastic process based on the construction of aluminium sheets with patina technique," said Wonmin in an interview with the Carpenters Workshop Gallery. "Structures are exposed to the surface and it becomes part of the work itself," he added. "Patina on aluminium is like painting on a canvas."

Among the pieces in the collection is a long, low bench. Park has punctuated its dark top with lighter strips of aluminium that are arranged in a cross shape.
A chair, titled Box, comprises four darker pieces fitted together to form the cube-shaped seat. A slightly lighter, curving sheet is slotted through the top panel to create the backrest.

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