Chris Schanck
Unique pair of tables, from the "Alufoil" series, 2014
Each: 22 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (57.2 x 66.7 x 66.7 cm)
From the Catalogue:
The idea for …
Detroit-based designer Chris Schanck embraces contradiction in his work, finding a comfortable place between the distinctions of dilapidation and assemblage, individual and collective, industrial and handcraft, romanticism and cynicism. His efforts deviate from the mass-produced, instead reviving mundane materials by transforming them into unique objects of uncommon luxury. Schanck is perhaps best known for his “Alufoil” series, in which industrial and discarded materials are sculpted, covered in aluminum foil and then sealed with resin.
Each: 22 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (57.2 x 66.7 x 66.7 cm)
From the Catalogue:
The idea for “Alufoil” came to the designer in 2011, at the tail end of graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art, located just twenty miles away but worlds apart from his studio today. “Alufoil” began with what were essentially leftovers: …
Detroit-based designer Chris Schanck embraces contradiction in his work, finding a comfortable place between the distinctions of dilapidation and assemblage, individual and collective, industrial and handcraft, romanticism and cynicism. His efforts deviate from the mass-produced, instead reviving mundane materials by transforming them into unique objects of uncommon luxury. Schanck is perhaps best known for his “Alufoil” series, in which industrial and discarded materials are sculpted, covered in aluminum foil and then sealed with resin.
