Soft Baroque

Material: Concrete

Dimensions: 43 x 25 cm

About: This Puffy Brick by Soft Baroque was made as a part of the Palazzo Monti residency, Summer 2018

2018

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Material: Concrete, Water Based Spray Paint

Dimensions: 46 x 25 cm

About: This Puffy Brick by Soft Baroque was made as a part of the Palazzo Monti residency, Summer 2018

2018

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Materials: mirror, pearls, screws, iroko, stainless steel fixings

Dimensions: 65 x 42 x 12 cm

About: Soft Baroque introduces pearl screws in the Pearl Mirror Cabinet, which combines a bathroom mirror with a cabinet behind, embellished with pearl screws. Screws are a super normal and universal method for creating structures, however it is often embarrassing for a designer to leave them exposed. Possibly from nostalgia for traditional timber joinery or the desire for the visual purity, screws are filled, plugged, hidden or covered. Freshwater pearl screws tops are the overcompensation for this delusion, a marriage between the most economical construction system and the cultural value of natural pearls.

2018

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Materials: Phenolic faced baltic (Finish), birch plywood, granite,

freshwater pearl screw caps

Dimensions: 56 x 41 x 37 cm

About: Freshwater pearl tops from a series of decorative screw caps. Screws are a super normal and universal method for creating structures, however it is often embarrassing for a designer to leave them exposed. Possibly from a nostalgia for traditional timber joinery or the desire for the visual purity, screws are filled, plugged, hidden or covered. Pearl screws caps are a overcompensation for this delusion, a marriage between the most economical construction system and the cultural value of natural pearls.

2018

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Materials: American Walnut, polyethylene, freshwater pearl screw caps

Dimensions: 190 x 54 x 54 cm

About: Freshwater pearl tops from a series of decorative screw caps. Screws are a super normal and universal method for creating structures, however it is often embarrassing for a designer to leave them exposed. Possibly from a nostalgia for traditional timber joinery or the desire for the visual purity, screws are filled, plugged, hidden or covered. Pearl screws caps are a overcompensation for this delusion, a marriage between the most economical construction system and the cultural value of natural pearls.

2018

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Materials: American Walnut, polyethylene, freshwater pearl screw caps

Dimensions: 52 x 26 x 106 cm

About: Freshwater pearl tops from a series of decorative screw caps. Screws are a super normal and universal method for creating structures, however it is often embarrassing for a designer to leave them exposed. Possibly from a nostalgia for traditional timber joinery or the desire for the visual purity, screws are filled, plugged, hidden or covered. Pearl screws caps are a overcompensation for this delusion, a marriage between the most economical construction system and the cultural value of natural pearls.

2018

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Materials: spray foam covered with epoxy and paint, mirror,

Dimensions: 50 cm (diameter)

*Custom sizes available

2018

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Materials: Black nickel plated brass

Dimensions: 27cm x 35cm x 42cm, 5kg

2017

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Materials: Black nickel plated brass

Dimensions: 7cm x 7cm x 24cm, 0.5kg

2017

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Materials: Black nickel plated brass

Dimensions: 38cm x 18cm x 20cm, 1.7kg

2017

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Materials: Black nickel plated brass, light fittings

Dimensions: 62cm x 30cm x 24cm, 2 kg

2017

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Materials: Black nickel plated brass, light fittings

Dimensions: 50cm x 24cm x 24cm, 2kg

2017

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Materials: Black Nickel plated brass, light fitting

Dimensions: 37cm x 27cm x 8cm, 1.4 kg

2017

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Materials: Marble, Resin, Glass fibre

Dimensions: 63 cmHx62 cmWx62 cmD

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contractions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

2017

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Materials: Marble, Resin, Glass Fibre

Dimensions: 64 × 17 × 18 cm

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contractions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

2017

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Materials: Marble, Resin, Glass Fibre

Dimensions: 44 cmHx35 cmWx32 cm

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contractions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

2017

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Materials: Marble, Resin, Glass Fibre

Dimensions: 40 cmHx36 cmWx60 cm

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contractions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

2017

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Materials: Aluminum dancing shelf, air hardening clay

Dimensions: 40 x 44 x 115 cm

About: The primitive aesthetic has permeated into contemporary design language as a way of reconnecting ourselves to basic forms of craft in the modern environment. The dancing shelf, the donor skeleton, is the antithesis of this, a gimmick condensed out of the Chinese manufacturing industry, with little relation to the handcrafted. Primitive Progressive plinth is a dynamic display that re-animates and anthropomorphizes the idea of the standardized white cube plinth. The ambition of a plinth is to appreciate the beauty of an artwork, this is a hyper-real version of this function and arguable more high performance. Its twisting and shifting frame makes it mesmerizing and hypnotic.

Primitive Progressive Plinth is a part of group show 'The Plinth Projects' , on show 18th November 2016 to 21 January 2017 at Etage Projects.

2016

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Soft Baroque X David Horan

Material: Steel

Dimensions: 70 × 42 × 36 cm

Unique

2016

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Materials: Marble, glass fibre, resin and dichroic film on glass

Dimensions: 43 x 99 x 23 cm

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contradictions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

Traditionally a craftsman's practice would be in proximity to the raw material used to fabricate objects. In the same fashion Soft Baroque produces work in the context of the metropolitan environment: processed materials manufactured for the domestic interiors and the DIY market are manipulated to unconventional ends. These new raw materials are converted into objects that still posses an echo from their intended use.

Soft Baroque regularly employs materials and processes that are often in contradiction, mashing mass produced ready-mades and components with a polished design sensibility. They operate at the intersection where craft and consumer logic meet. Their practice redefines classic typologies and removes them from their source material, rendering a new set of aesthetic and functional values.

2016

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Material: Marble

Dimensions: 28 x 32 x 49 cm

About: Corporate Marble is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A craft process generally reserved for high-performance components, with shattered stone slabs: a mainstay material of luxurious corporate lobbies and buffed stone floors. These contractions are exaggerated and forms of contemporary product solutions, revealing inconsistencies and false functional rationalities about modern consumer tastes.

2015

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Materials: Southern yellow pine, flock and screws

Dimensions: 69 x 69 x 42 cm

About: Renderings are becoming more diabolic and sophisticated, representations of reality are appearing in higher resolution. Meanwhile in the real world thin skins wrap cheap composites to imply value, these imitations, often of the natural, are functional fictions. New Surface Strategies is a visual system that examines infinite digital capacity versus the real world. Flexibility of digital imaging allows surface references to fade in and out, without the burden and expense of manual labour. Out of the blue, the digital skin enables the surface to absorb different material identities.

The planks of a uniform dimension are flocked chroma blue to make a pre-finished material, which is cut and assembled together. This type of construction is a reference to Gerrit Rietveld, Enzo Mari and other lo-fi plank wizards, but it is soft and plush, padding out modernism’s sharp corners. By keying out the blue colour, the surface of the furniture can be digitally substituted for another surface input. A live camera feed displays the chairs with altered surface textures applied to deceive the eye. Surface exists indifferently from the physical material and can be more finely tuned to commercial feedback loops.

2015

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Materials: Southern yellow pine, flock and screws

Dimensions: 75 x 39 x 40 cm

About: Renderings are becoming more diabolic and sophisticated, representations of reality are appearing in higher resolution. Meanwhile in the real world thin skins wrap cheap composites to imply value, these imitations, often of the natural, are functional fictions. New Surface Strategies is a visual system that examines infinite digital capacity versus the real world. Flexibility of digital imaging allows surface references to fade in and out, without the burden and expense of manual labour. Out of the blue, the digital skin enables the surface to absorb different material identities.

The planks of a uniform dimension are flocked chroma blue to make a pre-finished material, which is cut and assembled together. This type of construction is a reference to Gerrit Rietveld, Enzo Mari and other lo-fi plank wizards, but it is soft and plush, padding out modernism’s sharp corners. By keying out the blue colour, the surface of the furniture can be digitally substituted for another surface input. A live camera feed displays the chairs with altered surface textures applied to deceive the eye. Surface exists indifferently from the physical material and can be more finely tuned to commercial feedback loops.

2015

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Materials: Southern yellow pine, flock and screws

Dimensions: 80 x 42 x 25 cm

About: Renderings are becoming more diabolic and sophisticated, representations of reality are appearing in higher resolution. Meanwhile in the real world thin skins wrap cheap composites to imply value, these imitations, often of the natural, are functional fictions. New Surface Strategies is a visual system that examines infinite digital capacity versus the real world. Flexibility of digital imaging allows surface references to fade in and out, without the burden and expense of manual labour. Out of the blue, the digital skin enables the surface to absorb different material identities.

The planks of a uniform dimension are flocked chroma blue to make a pre-finished material, which is cut and assembled together. This type of construction is a reference to Gerrit Rietveld, Enzo Mari and other lo-fi plank wizards, but it is soft and plush, padding out modernism’s sharp corners. By keying out the blue colour, the surface of the furniture can be digitally substituted for another surface input. A live camera feed displays the chairs with altered surface textures applied to deceive the eye. Surface exists indifferently from the physical material and can be more finely tuned to commercial feedback loops.

2015

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Materials: Armchair, chair, bench and projection, Southern yellow pine, flock, screws and digital system

About: Renderings are becoming more diabolic and sophisticated, representations of reality are appearing in higher resolution. Meanwhile in the real world thin skins wrap cheap composites to imply value, these imitations, often of the natural, are functional fictions. New Surface Strategies is a visual system that examines infinite digital capacity versus the real world. Flexibility of digital imaging allows surface references to fade in and out, without the burden and expense of manual labour. Out of the blue, the digital skin enables the surface to absorb different material identities.

The planks of a uniform dimension are flocked chroma blue to make a pre-finished material, which is cut and assembled together. This type of construction is a reference to Gerrit Rietveld, Enzo Mari and other lo-fi plank wizards, but it is soft and plush, padding out modernism’s sharp corners. By keying out the blue colour, the surface of the furniture can be digitally substituted for another surface input. A live camera feed displays the chairs with altered surface textures applied to deceive the eye. Surface exists indifferently from the physical material and can be more finely tuned to commercial feedback loops.

2015

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Materials: Bubinga veneer and digital print on silk

Dimensions: 50 × 50 × 5 cm

About: Project Surface Service sees the sensory manipulation of interior design objects like benches and shelves, and the automated value inscription embedded in everyday objects. The surfaces of materials, like exotic wood and granite, are scanned and digitally printed onto silk textiles. Analysing the idea of a digital veneer, these objects negotiate what happens when materiality travels from the physical to electric signals and pulses, and back again. As objects, they defy any obvious compartmentalisation in art or design, and humorously explores the critical hierachies that exists between functionalist and aesthetic objects. The project lends itself to trending discourses of object oriented ontology and speculative realism, without abandoning our perverted sense of consumer logic.

Unique

2016

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