London-based design studio Soft Baroque melds conventional household furniture and objects with conceptual art. Its experimental approach to design is evocative, fantastical and functional.
Soft Baroque was founded in 2013 by design duo Saša Štucin and Nicholas Gardner. Štucin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in visual communications in 2011. Gardner earned a bachelor’s degree in furniture design in 2010 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. Štucin and Gardner later met while attending London’s Royal College of Art. They both graduated in 2013, Štucin with a master’s degree in visual communications and Gardner with a master’s degree in design products.
In 2011, Štucin took part in a workshop under Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts in New York and, in 2013, he participated in a research project at the Sandberg Instituut’s Think Tank for Visual Strategies in Amsterdam. Gardner worked as an assistant in designer Jerszy Seymour’s studio in Berlin in 2012 and as an assistant in Max Lamb’s design studio in 2013.
Since partnering as Soft Baroque, Štucin and Gardner have garnered critical attention for their unconventional modern furniture and objets d’art. The studio’s first piece — designed in 2014 — was the Lenticularis mirror, an innovative cross between a mirror and a scent diffuser. Another notable early work was the cartoon-like Pearl Screw Shelf bookcase in 2017, which features broken walnut timber planks, engineered plastic shelves and freshwater pearl screws.
Other pieces, such as chairs, benches, the Puffy Brick Column stools, vases, tables and lighting, are designed to blur the lines between functionalism and art. As Gardner explained in an interview with PIN-UP Magazine, “With a lot of our objects, we try to form a strange equation.”
Soft Baroque’s unique designs have included commissions from the luxury fashion brand Balenciaga and Swedish design company HEM. The duo has exhibited their pieces at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Swiss Institute in New York City, galleries in Copenhagen and New York and in major international design fairs.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of Soft Baroque seating, case pieces and storage cabinets, decorative objects and more.
$7,926
Toothpick Chair
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Beech
Contemporary "LED Vase" Brass Table Lamp and Vase by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The LED vase is a mixture of a vase and a lamp featuring LED lights. Comes with a remote control. The design duo soft Baroque blur the boundaries between acceptable furniture typ...
Brass
Contemporary Wall Lamp and Vase by Soft Baroque, Black Nickel-Plated Brass
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Commissioned by Etage Projects for Salon Art + Design 2017. Wall light and vase made of black nickel-plated crushed brass. Comes with remote, can be mounted ...
Brass, Nickel
Contemporary Zebrano Wood Chair by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade solid Zebrano chair from the "Hard Round" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are available on r...
Zebra Wood
Surface Service Obs Wall Piece
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Project surface service sees the sensory manipulation of interior design objects like benches and shelves, and the automated value inscription embedded in everyday objects. The surfa...
Silk, Bubinga
$2,594Sale Price|44% Off
Castilian millstone in granite and iron sculpture foot
By Soft Baroque
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind traditional Castilian millstone, wheel, or millstone, circular in shape , forming a unique, singular, and impressive sculpture. The piece is made of granite, and vari...
Granite, Iron
Contemporary Zebrano Wood Shelf by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade solid Zebrano wood shelf from the "Hard Round" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are available ...
Zebra Wood
"New Surface Strategies" Chair by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Blue textile covered wooden chair by London based design duo Soft Baroque, previously shown at Het Nieuwe Institut. Renderings are becoming more diabolic...
Pine
$10,207
Diet Wood Console
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applyin...
Aluminum
$7,445
Diet wood side table
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applying...
Aluminum
$7,926
Diet Wood Shelf
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applyin...
Aluminum
$4,323
Toothpick Stand
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Wenge
$5,043
Toothpick Stool
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Wenge
Contemporary Steel Bench by Soft Baroque, in Lavender
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The steel bench is a monolithic steel form created from a combination of a few simple actions. Working with a bespoke metal fabrication company, a flat sheet...
Steel
Contemporary LED Chandelier by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade black nickel-plated brass and LED Chandelier from the "BN&F" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes...
Brass, Nickel
Surface Service, Bubinga Wall Piece
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Project surface service sees the sensory manipulation of interior design objects like benches and shelves, and the automated value inscription embedded in everyday objects. The surfa...
Silk, Bubinga
"New Surface Strategies" Bench by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Blue textile covered wooden armchair by London based design duo Soft Baroque, previously shown at Het Nieuwe Institut. Renderings are becoming more diabo...
Pine
$403Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.4 in Dm 13.4 in
Takat, Textile Wall Piece, Unique Piece, Made of Wool and Naturals Dyes
Located in Marseille, FR
- Handspun and handwoven wool, henna, walnut barks dye, oil paint - 2019 - Unique piece - Framing by Laetitia Verchere Dimensions: 13.4 x 11.4 in // 34 x 29 cm.
Wool
$1,000 / item
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 19.69 in
Contemporary Minimalist Brass and Glass Solitary Vase V3
By Paulo Goldstein
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
V3 vase - Monstera by Paulo Goldstein, Brazilian contemporary design is part of a series of vases inspired in the observation of the natural lines of the flowers and leaves held in t...
Brass, Steel
Brass Vase, Brazilian Contemporary Style
By Tiago Curioni
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Yugen means a deep inner feeling, an expression of depth, the untranslated mystery, the incomprehensible and the abstract in all artistic activities. According to the Japanese, Yugen...
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Granite Sculpture
By Rene Brancusi, Brancusi
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-Century Modern abstract granite sculpture. Well executed Mid-Century Modern granite or marble abstract sculpture after Rene Brancusi. This fabulous stone sculpture has been carve...
Granite
Antique Russian Polished Brass Samovar Table Lamp 19th C
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Large Russian polished brass samovar urn mounted as a lamp. Exceptional quality and detail with oversized turned wooden handles on each side and a tall double light head with a brass finial. Brass Russian Samovar. Vasily Stephanovich Batashev - Tula, Russia. Decorative Antique Imperial Russian Brass Samovar, Late 19th Century This beautiful antique brass samovar...
Brass
$5,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 28 in W 34 in D 35 in
Contemporary Natural Oak Lounge Chair by Ellen Degeneres Parkdale Chair
Located in North York, ON
Contemporary natural oak lounge chair by Ellen Degeneres Parkdale Chair. Beautiful contemporary design with thick natural light show wood. Featuring pl...
Fabric, Oak
$1,995
H 17.5 in Dm 9 in
Large Swedish Ceramic Vase / Table Lamp Base by Vicke Lindstrand & Upsala Ekeby
By Upsala Ekeby, Vicke Lindstrand
Located in New York, NY
Large Swedish Mid-Century Modern white ceramic table lamp base / vase designed by Vicke Lindstrand for Upsala Ekeby. The form of the piece is elegantly conceived; it is tapered and fluted. The under glaze of the white exterior has burnt reddish tones which come through along the edges and give the piece depth and warmth. Furthermore, it is equipped with a pre-set drilled hole near the mouth which allows room for an electrical cord and for this piece to be used as a table lamp or a vase. Stamped: V.L. on base. Additional References: NK, Nordiska Kompaniet, Axel Einar Hjort, Carl Marmstrom, Orrefors...
Ceramic, Pottery
$145 / item
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 19.69 in
Contemporary Minimalist Small Brass and Glass Solitary Vase
By Paulo Goldstein
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Paulo Goldstein's Piccolo vase, Brazilian contemporary design is part of a series of vases that are inspired in the observation of the natural lines of the flowers and leaves held in...
Brass, Steel, Stainless Steel
$1,850
H 32 in W 19 in D 20 in
Contemporary Wood Dining Chair by Costantini, Palermo Hollywood, In Stock
By Costantini
Located in New York, NY
Palermo Hollywood Chair in fabric. Measurements are 19" W x 20" D x 32" H x 19" SH Available as shown for immediate delivery or order in any solid wood or finish. Other mater...
Wood
Pair of Nickel-Plated Art Deco Wall Floral Sconces
By Donald Deskey
Located in St. Louis, MO
Unique fixtures possibly from a St. Louis Art Deco era theatre or skyscraper. Pair brass nickel plated 3 - tiered, step base decorative wall floral vases / sconces or urns. Some mino...
Brass
$2,633
H 29.93 in W 27.56 in D 21.66 in
Gaulino Easy Chair by Oscar Tusquets natural ash wood occasional chair, Spain
By Oscar Tusquets Blanca
Located in Barcelona, ES
The Gaulino Easy Chair is the natural progression from the iconic Gaulino. It retains the functional artistry of the Gaulino while sitting lighter,...
Hide, Ash
$1,562 / item
H 3.94 in Dm 15.75 in
Contemporary Lafaiette S Wall Light Sconce Lamp Abstract Sculptures Brass Radar
By Colé
Located in Milan, Lombardy
Since the origin of Radar Interiors the founder, designer Bastien Taillard, has chosen to work on essential lines and a meticulous re-visitation of shap...
Brass
Toothpick Mirror
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Wenge
Contemporary LED Brass and Nickel Floor Lamp by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique and handmade black nickel-plated brass LED Floor Lamp from the "BN&F" series by the London based design duo Soft Baroque. Fitted with a LED Lamp and comes with a remote contro...
Brass, Nickel
Contemporary Brass and Bamboo Table by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique, handmade black nickel plated brass and bamboo table from the "BN&F" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are available on request....
Brass, Nickel
Contemporary Marble Umbrella Stand by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique, handmade marble umbrella stand from the "Corporate Marble" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are available on request. Abou...
Marble
Contemporary Anodised Aluminium Coat Stand by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade anodised aluminium coat stand from the "Soft Metal" series by the London based design duo soft baroque. Can be fixed on the wall wit...
Aluminum
Contemporary Anodized Aluminium Table by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade anodized aluminium table from the "Soft Metal" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are available ...
Aluminum
Contemporary Zebrano Wood Armchair by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Unique handmade solid Zebrano wood armchair from the "Hard Round" series by the London based design duo soft Baroque. Custom designs and sizes are availab...
Zebra Wood
Sold
H 24.41 in W 9.45 in D 11.82 in
Contemporary Wall Lamp and Vase by Soft Baroque, Black Nickel-Plated Brass
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Commissioned by Etage Projects for Salon Art + Design 2017. Wall light and vase made of black nickel-plated crushed brass. Comes with remote, can be mounted on the wall or placed on ...
Brass, Nickel
Contemporary Wall Lamp and Vase by Soft Baroque, Crushed Brass
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Commissioned by Etage Projects for Salon Art + Design 2017. Wall-mounted light and vase made of crushed brass. Comes with a remote. Handmade by Soft Baroque in London. Comes in diffe...
Brass
"Corporate Marble" Table Lamp by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Corporate marble by London-based design duo Soft Baroque, is a series of marble pieces constructed from resin and glass fibre. A Craft process generally reserved for hi-performance c...
Marble
"Primitive Progressive" Plinth by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Soft Baroque Primitive Progressive Plinth 40 x 44 x 115 cm Aluminium dancing shelf and air hardening clay 2016 The primitive aesthetic has permeated int...
Aluminum
Surface Service, Bubinga print Daybed by Soft Baroque
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Materials: Bubinga veneer, futon and digital print on silk and futon. Daybed from the Surface Service series by Soft Baroque, exhibited at Design Miami/Basel 2016 Project surface ...
Silk, Bubinga