Poetic/deep furniture design is a tough road to travel these days — as it seems that if something doesn’t have a processed corporate-monoculture-level of definition, as regards a cultural handle or obvious cultural incendiary-ness, you might well be invisible. Poetic furniture design is a slow-burn, long term, Trojan horse art.
Knowing the above, we’re quite moved by the positivity we feel radiating off of designer Betuel Benitez’s output. The buoyancy required to design and render, to such a degree, a project like his inflatables, is quite something. To us these idiosyncratic forms with Wong Kar-wai-level color saturation are some of the best furniture we’ve seen in a long while.
Knowing the above, we’re quite moved by the positivity we feel radiating off of designer Betuel Benitez’s output. The buoyancy required to design and render, to such a degree, a project like his inflatables, is quite something. To us these idiosyncratic forms with Wong Kar-wai-level color saturation are some of the best furniture we’ve seen in a long while.