Lanza Atelier fills exhibition with household furniture that people can acquire home

Architecture studio Lanza Atelier has lined an artwork exhibition in New York with plywood tables and stools in various sizes, which can be disassembled, flat-packed and dispersed amid people at the finish of the clearly show.


The structure for the Re-Resource exhibition encompasses 56 items of furniture that are lined up to fill the triangular floorplan of the Storefront for Artwork and Architecture gallery in SoHo.

Lanza Atelier loaded the Re-Source exhibition with dismountable tables and stools

These are applied to display 26 performs from rising architects and designers, composed entirely from leftover materials identified in Storefront’s storage spaces.

Lanza Atelier was tasked with producing an environment to showcase these items and likewise mirror the relevance of reusing and repurposing elements.

The interior of Re-source exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery with row of bright green tables by Lanza Atelier
The home furnishings parts are presented away when a visitor buys an artwork

With this intention, the studio made every bright eco-friendly table and chair applying interlocking planks of CNC-slash plywood, earning upcoming dismantling, transportation and reassembly as simple as possible.

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

“We desired to propose an exhibition style that could have an afterlife,” Lanza Atelier founding partner Isabel Martínez Abascal instructed Dezeen. “This implies that the items get the job done together as a full but can then be dispersed and become a thing else.”

A curving series of green tables in the Storefront for Art and Architecture
The site-particular style operates the size of the Storefront gallery

In the exhibition space, the items were lined up from finish to conclusion to develop a single ongoing floor.

“Storefront is these a individual house,” Abascal stated. “It is incredibly thin, extensive, and it has a pretty dynamic facade. We wished to go from just one edge of it to the other so that every little thing was related as one particular exclusive practical experience.”

Re-Source, which was Storefront’s to start with in-individual exhibition given that the get started of the pandemic, created use of the gallery’s current content assets to elevate funds for its ongoing survival.

And Abascal hopes that the takeaway home furniture parts can participate in their component in keeping the gallery funded.

“The aim is that at some point, they all stop up reused by men and women in their have properties while simultaneously supporting Storefront’s mission,” she reported.

Row of interlocking green tables by Lanza Atelier for Storefront for Art and Architecture
The tables are merged to kind one steady surface

Lanza Atelier’s perform for the Re-Supply clearly show was shortlisted at the 2021 Dezeen Awards alongside Youssofzay + Hart’s structure for the No Show exhibition, which functions a collection of interconnected rooms shaped from components observed in hardware shops.

Studio 10’s style for the Fashioned from Nature exhibition, housed in the V&A’s Shenzhen outpost, took property the top rated prize in the exhibition structure class this year.

The pictures is by Francis Dzikowski.