For Milan Design Week this year, Nendo and Daniel Arsham took on an interesting and rather poetic collaborative practice. Housed at the Friedman Benda art gallery, their ‘Break to Make’ exhibition embraced the lifecycle of objects and subtly commented on how one should treat objects that are broken.
For the ‘Break to Make’ exhibition, Nendo designed a series of objects that had “no specific functionality.” Arsham, in turn, would break these objects and then mold them into something else—but useful. The results were interesting—”from a bathtub-like form, a loveseat emerged; from a long and narrow block, a bench or a stool; from a tall, square form, a console table was revealed.” Through this exhibit, Nendo and Daniel Arsham hint that destruction is not necessarily an end to things.
Image Credit: Nendo
