Lanza Atelier fills exhibition with household furniture that visitors can just take residence

Architecture studio Lanza Atelier has lined an art exhibition in New York with plywood tables and stools in different dimensions, which can be disassembled, flat-packed and distributed amongst people at the conclusion of the present.


The layout for the Re-Resource exhibition encompasses 56 pieces of household furniture that are lined up to fill the triangular floorplan of the Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery in SoHo.

Lanza Atelier filled the Re-Supply exhibition with dismountable tables and stools

These are applied to exhibit 26 functions from emerging architects and designers, composed completely from leftover supplies found in Storefront’s storage areas.

Lanza Atelier was tasked with producing an surroundings to showcase these parts and in the same way mirror the relevance of reusing and repurposing resources.

The interior of Re-source exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery with row of bright green tables by Lanza Atelier
The furniture pieces are supplied absent when a visitor purchases an artwork

With this goal, the studio made each vibrant green desk and chair using interlocking planks of CNC-minimize plywood, making upcoming dismantling, transportation and reassembly as straightforward as possible.

So when readers purchase an artwork from the demonstrate, they will also be ready to take household the household furniture piece on which it was exhibited in a bid to increase its lifespan.

“We wished to propose an exhibition layout that could have an afterlife,” Lanza Atelier founding companion Isabel Martínez Abascal informed Dezeen. “This indicates that the parts perform collectively as a entire but can then be distributed and develop into anything else.”

A curving series of green tables in the Storefront for Art and Architecture
The website-particular structure runs the duration of the Storefront gallery

In the exhibition area, the items had been lined up from close to finish to develop a single continual surface.

“Storefront is such a specific place,” Abascal said. “It is extremely slim, very long, and it has a really dynamic facade. We preferred to go from just one edge of it to the other so that anything was connected as 1 exceptional practical experience.”

Re-Resource, which was Storefront’s first in-individual exhibition considering the fact that the start of the pandemic, built use of the gallery’s existing materials means to elevate revenue for its ongoing survival.

And Abascal hopes that the takeaway household furniture items can enjoy their portion in preserving the gallery funded.

“The goal is that at some point, they all conclude up reused by folks in their very own residences though at the same time supporting Storefront’s mission,” she explained.

Row of interlocking green tables by Lanza Atelier for Storefront for Art and Architecture
The tables are combined to type a person steady floor

Lanza Atelier’s operate for the Re-Source present was shortlisted at the 2021 Dezeen Awards together with Youssofzay + Hart’s design for the No Demonstrate exhibition, which characteristics a sequence of interconnected rooms shaped from elements found in hardware retailers.

Studio 10’s style and design for the Fashioned from Character exhibition, housed in the V&A’s Shenzhen outpost, took property the top prize in the exhibition style category this calendar year.

The images is by Francis Dzikowski.