Art Or Design?: Welcome To The Improvisational Carpentry Of Nicolás Aracena Müller
The Chilean designer uses found materials and intuition to forge conceptual furniture.
Amid the pristine galleries in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, Nicolás Aracena Müller was busy in the half gallery, half design boutique Chamber. Sawing, hammering, and drilling away at slabs of rough-hewn wood, Aracena Müller was building a collection of furniture ad-lib. "Some people thought the gallery was under construction," he quips. No plan guided the finished pieces, just intuition.