Film · 2026 · 0 min 34 s
Material is easier to judge at full size than in a catalogue photograph. These three clips show the pieces together in the room they are shown in — a crystal-topped table with cast resin chairs, a polished steel console against the gold wall, and the glass table by the window with a mirror above it.
These are three clips of pieces from the ranges on this site, shown in the room they are shown to customers in. There is no narration and no music; what there is to look at is the material — how a crystal edge catches light, how much of a room a polished surface takes with it, and how little of a cast resin chair is actually there.
Both materials are see-through, so what is behind them counts as much as what they are made of. Against the white wall the edge of the table almost disappears, the chairs read as outlines, and the shelving behind them turns into a grid. Seen together they read as a set of outlines rather than as separate objects.
Polished steel is the one surface here that keeps a record of the room. In this clip the gold wall and the grey floor travel along the console as the camera moves past it. A finish like that changes with everything put near it, which is also why it is the hardest finish to show in a photograph.
The last clip is at the window, where the mirror does something the other two cannot: it puts the garden and the street behind the pieces in the same frame. A glass table, a mirror and a window are all surfaces that answer to what is on the other side of them.
