Given London-based designer Nigel Coates’s preoccupation with sinuous forms (see the body-hugging scans that comprise his Bodypark tiles, or the cushy bustle of his ballgown-like Pompadour Chair), it’s no surprise he would look to the Caryatids, a favorite muse of the ancient world, to inspire a new line of housewares. These sculpted maidens stand as pillars at the entrance of various Greek and Roman landmarks, holding the classical architectural world on their heads.
This year at Maison & Objet, France’s international home design trade show that runs as a precursor to Paris Design Week, Roman blue-chip design gallery Secondome will debut the Carry Artids, a Coates-designed collection playing on these paradoxically curvaceous columns. Typically lifeless objects — a vase, a bottle, a goldfish bowl, a bucket, and a fruit bowl, all in glass — are infused with a very human appeal, equipped with outstretched arms carrying a glass disc above their heads, and very lady-like undulations along the length of their bases.
Maison & Objet runs from September 7 through 11.
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