Paul Cocksedge Studio's Excavation Core Shelf — a sculptural furniture piece from a series shown at Milan Design Week 2017, commissioned by Friedman Benda.
After hearing he was to be evicted to make way for luxury flats, Cocksedge extracted hundreds of cylinders from the concrete floor of his London studio. Mining the foundations uncovered traces of the building’s former l ife as a Victorian stable. The coarse texture of brick and concrete is paired with the lightness of glass to create a range of furniture pieces.Read More +“By creating pieces from the very fabric of my own studio, I hope to remind of the transient nature of both creative workers, and the places they inhabit.” – Paul Cocksedge. The series comprising Excavation Core Shelf, Excavation Double Core Table, Excavation Exploded Core Table and Excavation Sliced Core Table was commissioned by Friedman Benda Gallery and was shown at Milan Design Week 2017.Technical PDF +
