Haroshi Reimagines Modernica's Aspect Shell Spyder Chair

Artist and grasp woodworker Haroshi has teamed up with Modernica for a novel tackle the model’s Aspect Shell Spyder Chair. Haroshi’s intricate wooden sculptures are recognized for his or her eager consideration to element, vibrant coloration palette — which comes from the wooden of the recycled skateboard decks he usually makes use of — and flexibility: he’s labored on every little thing from {custom} BE@RBRICK iterations to pendants and even a skate ramp, however this collaboration was born from a novel chapter in his story.

Again in 2018, late HUF founder Keith Hufnagel introduced Haroshi to the Modernica manufacturing unit in California for the primary time so he might refinish his iconic center finger sculpture that sits inside HUF’s LA flagship. That very same 12 months, Modernica designed the Spyder base — a custom-fabricated base, manufactured from maple ply and walnut veneer and created in a high-heat wooden bending machine. Now, 5 years later, the 2 are acknowledging that shared historical past by combining Haroshi’s signature aesthetic with the Spyder chair base for a aspect shell chair that’s equal components mid-century-modern furnishings icon and model historical past.

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Haroshi’s signature multi-color, multi-layer wooden is seen on the chair’s intersecting spars, that are constructed of high-quality maple skateboard veneers. Every veneer was custom-dyed to match Haroshi’s signature coloration palette, and the look includes a dark-to-light gradient from its interior to outer plys, with colours fading away in the direction of the underside of every chair. The fiberglass shell is custom-built as nicely: Haroshi and Modernica’s artisans labored hand-in-hand, mixing pigments and resin to create a wholly new fiberglass shade. Final however not least, every chair boasts a hand-engraved Haroshi plaque, signed and individually numbered.

The Haroshi x Modernica Aspect Shell Spyder Chair will launch on the Modernica webstore Could 27. It’s priced at $1,400 USD and restricted to an version of 100.

For extra from the world of design take a look at AURALEE and Fritz Hansen’s new collaboration, a celebration of the latter model’s a hundred and fiftieth anniversary.