Lost in Paradise

Chris Wolston’s new furniture pieces employ freely illustrated aluminum pieces to present a tactile and
compelling design statement. With a new cabinet, armchair, dining table, lighting, and wall installation,
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CHARLES DE LISLE

Wolston combines his interest in ancient influences and postmodern fabrication. Inspired by the surroundings
of his studio in Medellin, Colombia, Wolston has created wildly colorful sand-cast aluminum pieces, collaging
leaves, flowers and fruit into a rich patchwork. This is Wolston’s first experimentation with coloring aluminum
though anodization, a process which extends to a series of table top sculptures, also included in this presentation.
Wolston’s work is at once playful and refined, exuberantly rendered and produced with thoughtful candor. A
new graphic cabinet uses leaves and flowers to define its silhouette like a patch of technicolor jungle ripped
from a comic book forest.