The New York Furniture Studio That’s Become a Fashion World Favorite

Over the last two years, their work has become more refined and conceptual — recent collections reference 1960s-era train car seats and Indian modernism — but the raw functionality of studio furniture still anchors Green River aesthetic. Their first design, which has appeared in different iterations across collections, was the One Pine-Board chair, designed and constructed from a single piece of wood over the course of a day. Unstained and without adornment, the angular chair is as simple and inventive as a piece of origami. “I think of that chair as the standard for the business,” Bloomstein says. “Not just in terms of form but that the actual making of it was fast and immediate.”

The ability to distill high concepts through simple execution is rooted in the artists’ backgrounds. Bloomstein, 31, spent his early years at a Waldorf School focused on craft (he studied blacksmithing and weaving, in addition to woodworking) and worked on restoring Shaker furniture. Aujla, 33, grew up in British Columbia and studied fine art and art history at the University of Toronto before starting his painting practice. Now, Bloomstein designs and prototypes each piece while Aujla focuses on the art-historical context. He will study and critique new work, and together they will refine it. “It’s almost like Ben is the writer and I’m the editor,” Aujla says.

Source: The New York Times

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