Studio Nucleo colours Primitive furniture in pastel hues for Nilufar Gallery
Turin-based design collective Studio Nucleo has created a series of chromatic furniture items constructed to form a pixellated effect for an exhibition at Nilufar Gallery.
The exhibition, titled It's All About Colour, has seen Italian Studio Nucleo release pastel-hued versions of its all-white Primitive furniture collection, which was initially released in 2009 and 2010.
Each of the geometric pieces, which include a large floor lamp, a pendant light, a sofa, an armchair and a dining table, are reimagined and animated in soft shades of pale pink, mint green, canary yellow and dusty blue.
When designing the furniture, Studio Nucleo aimed to reduce aggregated forms to basic geometric shapes. The result is a series of products that boast a pixellated style, made up of overlapping cubes. Made by hand, each design is unique and has been finished with a non-toxic resin that highlights the bumps and imperfections on its surfaces.
According to the studio, Primitive was informed by the work of 20th-century creatives like Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and Russian artists Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich.
"The return to structure is a 20th-century leitmotiv, with artistic avant-garde, from cubism, to abstract art, to constructivism, suprematism," said Studio Nucleo.
"The art is free from 'enslavement' to the subject, able to translate the motions of the human soul with the pure colour or pure form."
"In [his book], Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky dev...
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