Harmony is a sculptural bench in three sections. Each section is composed of a solid Ash and plywood structure curtained on two sides by unique vacuum-formed styrene panels and upholstered with long-pile artificial turf.
Harmony is compositionally experimental, combining simple minimalist elements with organically inspired freeform elements. By fusing these elements Harmony seeks to eke out a possible compatibility between the most interesting elements of both the modernist and post-modernist furniture making traditions.
The use of artificial turf as an upholstery material bluntly associates the bench with our contemporary relationship with the natural world. In so doing it poses a question as to where our problematic desire for both natural and man made things will lead us next.
Exhibited
2008 Best In Show, Objectspace, Ponsonby
2007 Suite 6, Unitec, Mount Albert
>Read Matt Blomeley’s Introduction to the Suite 6 catalogue.
