CRAFTING THE FUTURE

Oberdoerfer & Krebs Rethink Digital Fabrication with Hand-Bent 3D Printed Furniture

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Copenhagen-based design studio Oberdoerfer & Krebs is challenging the limitations of additive manufacturing by introducing manual post-print processing to 3D-printed furniture. By combining programmed toolpaths with heat-assisted hand-bending, the studio’s Bend Chair and Bend Stool projects move beyond the static, side-profile extrusion common in current 3D-printed design. According to the designers, this hybrid approach allows … Read more

Lilla Tabasso: Hyperrealistic Murano Glass Flowers and Roots

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Milan-based artist Lilla Tabasso is redefining contemporary glass art by merging biological precision with the traditional Murano lampworking technique. Her latest installation at the Fondazione Dries Van Noten’s inaugural exhibition, The Only True Protest Is Beauty, features hyper-realistic botanical sculptures that capture flowers at the end of their life cycles. By immortalizing wilting tulips and … Read more

Laila Gohar: Sculpting Edible Worlds from Butter and Meringue

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Artist Laila Gohar is transforming the culinary landscape by treating everyday ingredients as sculptural mediums, a trend that prioritizes sensory experience over traditional plating. By utilizing butter, tinned fish, and cake to mimic classical architecture and surrealist forms, Gohar’s work marks a shift toward “performative gastronomy,” where the visual spectacle of food is as vital … Read more

29,000 Bricks: The Saudi Arabia Pavilion at Venice Biennale

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At the 61st Venice Biennale, running from May 9 to November 22, 2026, artist Dana Awartani represents Saudi Arabia with the installation May your tears never dry, you who weep over stones. Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture’s Visual Arts Commission and curated by Antonia Carver, the work features over 29,000 hand-crafted clay bricks arranged … Read more

Marie Watt: Reimagining Ancestral Craft with Tin and Textiles

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Artist Marie Watt, a member of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians, transforms reclaimed textiles into collaborative living archives. By blending traditional Haudenosaunee matrilineal social structures with contemporary sculpture, Watt’s practice uses sewing circles and reclaimed materials—such as wool blankets and tin jingles—to bridge community storytelling, Indigenous teachings, and urban infrastructure. How … Read more

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