Just recently I have been seeing furniture by Rick Owens, it caught my eye instantly and I really like it. He understands there is a higher concern for the well being of the environment and the demand for products to be made of natural, raw materials, and this is just what he has done with his furniture. Using natural woods, metals and bone he has created a beautiful collection.
Fascinated by the living and decay, Owens says, “There is no point wearing great clothes if the body isn’t fit, you have to start with the body” stating with furniture he maintains the same clarity, and imagines where the pieces will sit, equally how the body sits within the hip-formed, and upon the straight lined, seats.
Melding skulls and antlers into oversized sculptural wooden forms, which otherwise avoid extraneous detail, the materials he uses echo the signature rugged, raw luxury his clothes exude, and the natural elements actually embrace the sitter. Marble and bronze pieces, alongside the wood and bone, succeed by their classical proportion as well as form, but most beguiling is the brutal honesty of the work, which it has to be said, unusually for chairs, does not appear to reference. Art furniture? No. Functional poetry – most definitely.
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