Presented by Collectional, Apparatus, a New York based interdisciplinary design studio that explores the relationship of lighting, furniture, and objects in their environments. Predicated on the modernist principle of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, fully articulated collections reveal individual pieces as artifacts of a holistic world - each referencing the historical and cultural mood summoned by a singular vision.
Apparatus creates each piece with a devotion to the rigor of small studio craftsmanship, cantering the importance of the human hand in lending soul to an object. Sensual materials such as marble, suede, horsehair, lacquer, and porcelain are combined with hand-patinated brass in the studio’s dedicated New York factory to create its distinctive catalogue. Underpinning every piece, whether it be a light fixture or a chair, is a deft balance between mechanization and the hand-made, striving equally for the contradictions of perfection and the beautiful irregularity of humanity.