DMTV Milkshake: Chen Chen on Making Magic in Unexpected Ways
Chen Chen of Chen Chen & Kai Williams shares the best-designed object in his workshop + the fruits of a failed experiment.
This week?s DMTV Milkshake guest is Chen Chen, co-founder of the Brooklyn design studio Chen Chen & Kai Williams. With his co-founder Kai Williams, Chen transforms humble materials into deeply unexpected forms. The duo?s Cold Cut Coaster / Rugs (shown below) is the clearest example, with wood, resin-soaked fabric, and more reworked as objects that resemble nothing as much as a slice of highly processed meat.
In this week?s Milkshake, Chen pulls questions from the duo?s Leg Bowl (making its second Milkshake appearance, following its debut with Carly Ayres) and walks us through the group?s process ? for example, sharing how a quotidian quartz stone, familiar to any hiker in the Mid-Atlantic, is reworked into the luminous petals of their Stone Rose Light. ?It just looks like a potato,? says Chen. ?There’s nothing remarkable about it, but when you cut it open, you have this very beautiful kind of crystalline structure.?
Similarly inventive products include a new and improved version of their Spiral Pen, as well as a snake-like lighter holder and bottle opener, both in stainless steel and brass, and both inspired by the serpentine design motifs seen at the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Also in this episode of Milkshake, Chen shares the best-designed object in his workshop, the position CCKW occupies on the art-design spec...
This week?s DMTV Milkshake guest is Chen Chen, co-founder of the Brooklyn design studio Chen Chen & Kai Williams. With his co-founder Kai Williams, Chen transforms humble materials into deeply unexpected forms. The duo?s Cold Cut Coaster / Rugs (shown below) is the clearest example, with wood, resin-soaked fabric, and more reworked as objects that resemble nothing as much as a slice of highly processed meat.
In this week?s Milkshake, Chen pulls questions from the duo?s Leg Bowl (making its second Milkshake appearance, following its debut with Carly Ayres) and walks us through the group?s process ? for example, sharing how a quotidian quartz stone, familiar to any hiker in the Mid-Atlantic, is reworked into the luminous petals of their Stone Rose Light. ?It just looks like a potato,? says Chen. ?There’s nothing remarkable about it, but when you cut it open, you have this very beautiful kind of crystalline structure.?
Similarly inventive products include a new and improved version of their Spiral Pen, as well as a snake-like lighter holder and bottle opener, both in stainless steel and brass, and both inspired by the serpentine design motifs seen at the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris.
Also in this episode of Milkshake, Chen shares the best-designed object in his workshop, the position CCKW occupies on the art-design spec...
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