During Milan Design Week, American artist Kiah Celeste stages a performance of nomadic objects, repurposed materials, and reimagined destinies—born from her collaboration with Kindof Furniture. Exploring the tension between otherness and familiarity, between the sculptural and the functional, between earthly and extraterrestrial atmospheres, her striking material presences invite a sensory and ideological confrontation with the timeless friction between humans and the natural environment. This encounter opens up space for reimagining a new creative cycle of rebirth and material reactivation.
Celeste’s practice, which relies on recycling and manipulating found objects and materials, also fosters an active and constructive dialogue on environmental sustainability. By balancing discarded or second-hand objects through tension, flexibility, and gravity, the artist underscores the importance of an alternative equilibrium between natural resources and human interventions. The interplay of innovation, concept, raw energy, and grace ultimately suggests a complex system of tensions, juxtapositions, and affinities that shape our everyday relationships—with society, with objects, and with our place on the planet.
In this spirit, Kindof and Kiah Celeste share a commitment to exploring traditional industrial materials in alternative and creative ways. Kindof’s signature steel rod emerges from concrete, transforming into functional design forms built for longevity and sustainability within the circular economy of steel. The product is primal, simple, and monomaterial, with the frame’s geometry—protected by an industrial patent—crafted from a single, uninterrupted steel rod.
The formal and structural flexibility of Kindof’s steel rod thus envisions a unique space that evolves into an inclusive environment, integrating biophilic principles and fostering human interaction. By incorporating Kindof’s functional forms, the installation creates an immersive, multisensory atmosphere. The collaboration with an artist like Kiah Celeste fuels this ambition—to rethink how we build, connect, and move through the human-made world.
Just as Kindof highlights the hidden potential of an industrial material in its conventional use, Celeste’s work elevates industrial remnants, revealing their imaginative and poetic possibilities. The meeting of Kindof and Kiah Celeste sets the stage for an exploration open to all, engaging both the senses and the mind. It invites viewers to become active participants in the artwork, reflecting on their dynamic and evolving relationship within an interconnected system of objects that shape and accompany our existence.
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