THE DREAM CITY OF MICAH ROSENBLATT
Specializing in sculptural furniture, the Florida-born, Brooklyn-based designer delivers with "City Block" a true homage to architecture and the city.
Steel, glass bricks, and upholstery fabric. These are the three main elements that bring to life the 16 extraordinary rooms.
signed Micah Rosenblatt. In addition to evoking his adopted city, New York, through its skyline and architectural elements, the designer...
enjoys exploring the points of contact between the ancient and the contemporary, myth and modernity. There are so many strange facades,
architectural compositions and connections. I wanted to take this dramatic, industrial landscape and bring it down to a domestic scale.
smaller "He says.
The collection includes, among other things, an upholstered steel loveseat, an arched shelf, a glass block chair, floor lamps, and a dining table with eight bar stools. While Rosenblatt's designs are decidedly contemporary, they subtly incorporate historical architectural elements on a new scale. One of the most striking is undoubtedly the stylized Ionic column capital, which is also found in the lamps and chairs. The cylindrical steel legs of the imposing dining table, reminiscent of skyscraper silhouettes, are also hard to miss. Another strong characteristic of this collection is the omnipresence of the glass block, which gives it its name. Framed in steel and displaying undulations in the material, the glass blocks evoke the architecture of Florida, Rosenblatt's home state: Glass bricks have all these qualities that appeal to me […] they are architecturally beautiful, but also kitschy. Almost tacky. Remixing them and integrating them into the design allowed me to add a touch of humor to the rooms. »
Another star of "City Block" is steel. A material that holds a unique place in the artist's history. And for good reason: this former student of Jewish mysticism, who intended to become a rabbi, encountered his preferred material by chance in a Brooklyn fabrication workshop. "I was fascinated," he recalls, adding: And to this day, I am impressed by its capabilities, its strength, and the way I can play with its visual weight. For the collection, I especially wanted to play with its delicate nature [...]. I removed volumes and reduced the steel to simple lines, as if it were a sketch. “Although Rosenblatt is now a designer, he hasn’t completely abandoned his other life. Indeed, Jewish mysticism still has a place in his creative practice. Once focused on conceptual notions and metaphysics, he now strives to constantly introduce fiction and imagination into the physical world.” When I design and create, I try to imbue the pieces with a sense of self-awareness. The idea is that if presented with their own "objectivity," they would be delighted and curious. They would be impressed by their capacity to be so much more than their natural state. »
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