Anya Gupta, Marc Librizzi, Max Pratt

Biography:

Anya Gupta

Having lived in 6 different countries, my interests in art and design have stemmed from my cultural background. My work aims to explore my cultural experiences in a historical, political and occasionally humorous ways. To me, furniture and design play a crucial role in not only the continuity of tradition and culture, but its evolution.

Marc Librizzi

Marc Librizzi is a 21 year old designer from the U.S. who is currently studying furniture design at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work focusses on exploring new materials and processes. Often the work created embraces accidents and the natural properties of a material. Much of marc’s inspiration can be derived from the common and vernacular. Through the intervention of uncommon processes and materials he is able to create unique objects that borrow elements from the world of the vernacular.

Max Pratt

I am a Providence based artist working in wood, metal, and textiles. I began studying furniture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. My work lifts form and process from natural materials. It mimics anatomy and figure in furniture. The objects that people live with should be informed by how they live. Take negative space from the lines of the human body, and translate it into a positive space to support that body. An object created in this way, the user is invited into the space, and its function is instinctively understood. The forms take on a fragile but inviting look. I create gallery furniture for the modern home. Through the lens of figurative study, I am exploring the properties of materials and ergonomics.

Product

CHARPAI

Having lived in 6 countries, none being India, I grew very distant from my heritage. In an attempt to reconcile with my neglected Indian heritage, I made an Indian daybed (charpai). While heavily influenced by Indian culture, the materials and colors used speaks to my other cultural experiences as well. The daybed uses maple wood, hand-dyed and hand-woven danish cord.

Tube Chair

This Chair is created using a process of impregnating fiberglass cloth with resin and then rolling into a hollow tubes. These tubes are than hung over each and left to cure utilizing gravity to create its form.

Dissolve Lamp

This lamp is formed by casting polyurethane into expanded polystyrene foam. The polystyrene foam is then dissolved only leaving the negative space of the foam.

Hershey Lounge Chair

This lounge chair explores comfort and upholstery in an experimental way. Combining bent laminations of ash with sewn felt and a welded steel frame.

Dragonfly Chair

This chair is an exploration of the natural curvature of wood, and its interaction with the human body. It is constructed of strips of ash, soaked and then bent and woven onto a steel frame.