FIRE, WALK WITH ME
COLLECTIBLE FURNITURE
2024STEEL WIRE, SHOU SUGI BAN, FIRE
VARIOUS SIZES
STOOL A/B/C, BeNCH, TABLE, THRONE
LIMITED EDITION
FIRE, WALK WITH ME IS A SERIES OF COLLECTIBLE FURNITURE WHICH EXPLORES FIRE AS A TRANSFORMATIVE FORCE, BOTH AS A DESTRUCTIVE AND AS A CREATIVE ONE. THE PROJECT MERGES PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND HISTORY WITH MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION, DRAWING FROM MAGDALENA’S EXPERIENCE OF HER CHILDHOOD HOME BURNING AND JOHANNES’ RESEARCH ON THE CONSTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL OF FIRE.
OUR PROCESS BEGINS WITH WOODEN FORMS WRAPPED IN METAL, WHICH ARE THEN BURNED TO CREATE THE HOLLOW STEEL MESH STRUCTURES. THE RESULTING PIECES RETAIN THE RAW TRACES OF FIRE, CAPTURING ITS UNPREDICTABLE PATTERNS WHILE INTEGRATING STEEL FRAMEWORKS FOR STABILITY. THIS METHOD AND APPROACH BUILDS ON THE EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS SUCH AS MONA HATOUM, TUOMAS MARKUNPOIKA, TAKT PROJECT, SHIRO KURAMATA, EACH REFERENCING JOSEF HOFFMANN, WHO EACH EXPLORE MATERIAL DECONSTRUCTION AND PROCEDURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THEIR WORK.
THIS PROCESS ALSO REFERENCES HISTORICAL MOMENTS LIKE THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, WHERE DESTRUCTION LED TO ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. THE FORMAL EXPRESSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL PIECES PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE GRANDEUR OF THE ART-DECO ARCHITECTURE OF THE GLOBAL METROPOLISES, SUCH AS MOSCOW AND NEW YORK CITY, AS THEIR EMERGING STYLE OF THE TIME EMBODIES RESILIENCE AND REINVENTION.
THROUGH FIRE, WALK WITH ME, WE CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP BY EMBRACING FIRE AS A TOOL FOR CREATION. EACH PIECE IN THE COLLECTION STANDS AS A TESTAMENT TO TRANSFORMATION, SHAPED BY BOTH CONTROL AND CHAOS.