See artist Tom Sachs’s rough-and-ready furniture made from everyday materials, now on view in Chicago:
) . Maple plywood, rubber flex-mounts, stainless steel screws, water-based lacquer. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.constructed a Knoll office installation out of phone books and duct tape. Over the last three decades, the New York-based artist has continued using everyday materials to recreate icons of consumerism as mixed-media sculptures .Now, for the first time in more than 20 years, it is the subject of an exhibition in the U.S.
From a maple-plywood loveseat coated in latex with Spinneybeck leather cushions to a folding NASA chair showing signs of use , Sachs’s designs are a natural extension of his art practice—that is, with traces of his handiwork on full display. “I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it’s done,” the artist once toldmagazine of his work. “If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.”
Sachs has a workshop in North Carolina with Stokes Manufacturing, which produces his furnishings in open editions. Each piece is numbered on a hand-engraved plate.
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