BOSTON ROLL

Rick Owens - Daybed, 2010
Albâtre, bronze, plywood 350 x 120 x 100 cm

“Rick Owens’ singular vision as a designer fuses archaism with modernism, brutal beauty with uncompromising luxury. As in his pioneering fashion design, Owens juxtaposes the most basic materials with the most extravagant: leather and cotton in a biker jacket, for example, or alabaster and plywood in his new bedroom, Pavane for a Dead Princess. Owens’ previous furniture has incorporated resin, horn, marble, bronze, leather, concrete, plywood, and cowhide. His scale shifts from broad and muscular works to lean and curved ones. Some surfaces are left untreated—rough to the touch—while others are polished or covered in fur. Owens’ work in furniture references a variety of sources including 20thcentury icons, Le Corbusier, Luigi Moretti, and Donald Judd. In addition, his concept for a total domestic environment echoes those championed by Jean Michel Frank and Pierre Chareau”