B-sides

a collection of furniture experiments and ideas that have evolved in FIG40’s studio over the past few years. Their work always involves a significant amount of prototyping and experimenting, mostly in service objects directly for commercial clients. In between projects, other ideas emerge that warrant further exploration with an uncertain outcome. This exhibition is a selection of those experiments, in a similar way to a band releasing an album of B-sides and rarities. Although individual pieces, the thread that links them together is an exploration of materials, compositions, and functions to create products that are approachable, neighbourly, and elemental.

JOHN MONTEITH + URBAN FABRIC RUGS

Based on recent drawings from his “Resonances” series these rugs were created in response to the architecture of various relational sites of social exchange that make up the urban environment. Skyscrapers and skylines, towers and buildings, zones, paths, and parks, inform and are recast in a series of overlapping, repeating, reformulated geometries, systems of exchange articulated through the reverberation of form. Focusing on architectural relationships, these works were produced in conversation with cities that bear a diverse history of the built form in their articulation of spatial dynamics and representational politics.

Photographed by Elijah Nichols

Punto-01 by Sentat (on grand ensemble rug by john monteith)