Melting Point: Thawing Metal to Welcome Spring

Inspired by Georgian mountain dough-making traditions, this piece combines oak and stainless steel in striking contrast. The metal appears to melt and flow across the wooden base, creating a functional surface that seems frozen mid-transformation. The steel captures that precise moment between solid and liquid states—like winter ice giving way to spring thaw. Simple materials, complex impression.

A study in metal’s memory of transformation. This aluminum pendant begins as cardboard dipped repeatedly in liquid wax, each layer recording the wax’s natural flow and drip patterns. As the material cools, it captures that precise moment when liquid becomes solid—drips frozen mid-fall. Once cast in aluminum, these ephemeral movements become permanent, preserving the fluid state in metal form. The result is unrepeatable, each pendant documenting its unique journey from molten to solid, much like the seasonal threshold we’re currently experiencing.

Cast aluminum that refuses to behave like metal should. This side table appears caught mid-melt, its form seemingly liquid despite being permanently solid. Vertical striations across its polished surface create visual movement, making the hard metal appear to ripple and flow like fabric draped over an invisible form. The Breccia Paradiso marble top provides the perfect contrast—solid geometry floating atop metal that seems unwilling to settle into its final state. A perfect capture of matter at its most transitional moment.

Aluminum trapped between states of becoming. Fadida’s sculptural chair began as foam—a yielding, impermanent material—before being transformed through lost foam casting. The metal captures every carving mark and gesture from its previous incarnation, preserving the very moment of its making. A chair reduced to its essential “skeleton,” yet somehow more alive for it, with a surface that reads like metal in the act of settling into its final form.

The Surface Chair by Studio NAWA is a radical design experiment, translating idealized digital objects into physical reality. In the world of digital simulation, everything is constructed from points, lines, and infinitely thin surfaces—folded, bent, and stretched to create form. With its fluid geometry and mirror-polished stainless steel surface, the Surface Chair embodies this transformation, where an object with virtually no tolerances in the digital realm meets the inherent imperfections of the material world.

ORFEO STUDIO’s coffee table functions as both functional object and artistic statement focused on movement and flow. This sculptural piece combines modern art with practical design through its distinctive structure—a vertical sheet metal wall forming a unique wave turn that creates the impression of continuous motion. The metal appears captured mid-flow, as if shaped by golden wind into elegant curved forms.

Mi-RR 13 by Studio Speculo is an object mirror that intrigues with its form. The frame’s shape attempts to capture the disappearance of the classic, standing mirror at the moment of transformation into a cosmic object. It reflects the surrounding world while blending into our living spaces, yet triggering dialogs about the forms and functions of everyday objects.

Dongwook Choi’s bench physically embodies the mathematical poetry of wave interference. The South Korean designer captures the precise moment where overlapping wave patterns—those crests and troughs found throughout nature—form complex amplitude variations in metal form. The table stands as a thoughtful manifestation of nature’s inherent mathematics rendered in metal.

The Theia Table set by LMNOH is a limited edition exquisite piece of functional art that brings the allure and mystique of the precious stone into your living space. Theia features a table top made from carefully sourced, high-quality golden pyrite. The rich, brass-yellow hue, inherent in pyrite, gives the table a luxurious and opulent appearance. Its metallic luster adds a captivating shimmer, making the table a focal point in any room. The table is supported by a sturdy aluminium frame, designed to complement the pyrite top.

Studio Kaytar’s sculptural table captures ironbark’s deep furrows and textural complexity in metal form. The contrast between the raw, textured base and mirror-polished tabletop creates a compelling dialogue between organic roughness and refined precision. Each piece carries unique ripples and pits from the hand-casting process, ensuring no two are identical. The aluminum will gradually develop a natural patina over time, though it can be polished back to its original brilliance—offering two distinct expressions of the same form. This duality allows the piece to evolve, much like the natural elements that inspired it.

Sai.E Studio’s chair merges carved beech wood with aluminum mold casting to explore natural symbiotic relationships through design. Part of The Parasitic Factors (TPF) series, the piece draws from the artist’s personal observations of how organisms coexist and adapt to one another in nature. The contrasting materials—organic wood and metallic aluminum—interact much like parasites and hosts, creating a visual dialogue about interdependence. The aluminum appears to flow across and through the wooden structure, suggesting a frozen moment in an ongoing relationship between materials.

The Voguing Lamp 1 by BY JAMPS is a bold fusion of sustainability and sculptural design, crafted from recycled scrap aluminum and precision-fitted with integrated lighting components. Inspired by the fluidity and expressive motion of voguing, this lamp transforms raw industrial material into an elegant, dynamic form that plays with light, shadow, and movement.

Joana Teixeira’s piece begins as a perfect aluminum cube before human hands deliberately transform it through direct physical manipulation. Each hammer strike deforms the metal’s precise geometry, creating unique undulations and folds that remain permanently captured in the material. These handcrafted interventions make each piece singular—a physical record of transformation that maintains its essential aluminum nature despite its altered form. The deformed metal surfaces interact with light in unexpected ways, creating soft reflections similar to sunlight playing across water.

A study in material contradiction—holders made from the very substance they’re designed to support. These pieces balance controlled pouring with wax’s natural flow tendencies, capturing the exact moment of transition from liquid to solid. Each candleholder preserves its unique flow patterns, forming a permanent record of a temporary state. The result: functional sculptures that embody both intention and chance. Available individually or as a set.

Handcrafted using the Cire Perdue (lost wax) casting technique, this limited-edition mirror features an aluminum frame that appears caught mid-flow. The metal captures that precise moment when liquid becomes solid, preserving what looks like molten magma frozen in time. Drawing inspiration from the early universe’s elemental combinations—specifically calcium and aluminum formations among the first solids in our solar system—the design references our cosmic origins. The mirror’s fluid metal frame showcases aluminum’s remarkable plasticity while creating a compelling contrast with the perfect reflective surface it surrounds.

The Elemental Patchwork is an exploration of balance and transformation, embodied through an intricate mixture of metals cast at extreme temperatures. Each metals, though unique in origin and composition, merges with others to form a seemingly chaotic yet intentional whole. This work is a tribute to the unpredictable nature of life, where disparate events, much like these metals, shape us in unexpected ways.