Seletti Square table White Metal. Dimensions: 70 × 70 cm x H 71 cm.
Studio Job brings together two free spirits, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel. The
Flemish artist-designer couple work between the industrial world and the world
of applied arts, creating projects, often as a limited edition, which combine
the craft skills with an avant-garde, highly expressive language rich in
symbols. The designer duo have created the Industry Garden collection for
Seletti: garden furniture with a rock’n’roll style, crazy and baroque at the
same time. Made of perforated cast aluminium, these pieces of furniture are
entirely made of incredible metal lace with abundant patterns. Meticulous metal
work: great art! The romantic, classic forms of Industry furniture are inspired
by 19th-century Victorian wrought iron garden furniture. These wise bucolic
forms, inscribed in the collective memory, are completely reinterpreted and
twisted by a set of original nested patterns, emblematic of the work of Studio
Job: an explosive mixture of flowers, cogs, peace and love signs, ram's heads,
coffee cups… This complex ornamentation is teeming with interlocking designs
which are symbols waiting to be deciphered. The singular patterns are inspired
by the duality of the human being: on the one hand, the hard worker who uses
tools and machines to produce efficiently, and on the other, the philosopher who
constantly seeks to give meaning to his life and the world around him. Machines,
nature, philosophy, life and death all mix in this graphic world which
reproduces the chaotic, mysterious, colourful character of life. These quirky,
current graphics bring a serious facelift to the garden furniture of our
ancestors. Durable and light, Industry Garden furniture can be used
outdoors.
