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.
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
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
Gallo-RomanPuddingstone Millstone Sculpture from 2nd Century France
Located in London, GB
Carved from a mosaic-like rock, this striking sculpture is the lower grinding stone from a Gallo-Roman millstone - a powerful and aesthetic symbol of life two millennia ago. It is ma...
Stone
Vintage Elongated Tall Female Brass and Black Granite Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
This elongated vintage female figurative tall thin sculpture sits on a back granite triangle base. The height of the brass sculpture alone is 14" ...
Granite, Brass
$2,593 / item
H 17.72 in W 25.6 in D 21.66 in
Sculpture in Resin and Marble Powder, Fragment of Apollo's Foot.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Sculpture in resin and marble powder, representing the sculpture of Fragment of Apollo's foot. A fine reproduction of an imposing fragment of a foot, almost certainly the remains of...
Marble
$5,057 / item
H 11.03 in W 23.23 in D 6.5 in
Granite Sculpture of a Sphinx in the Taste of Ancient Egypt.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Granite sculpture of a Sphinx in the taste of ancient Egypt, 20th century. Granite sculpture of a Sphinx in the taste of ancient Egypt, 20th century. H: 28cm, W: 59cm, D: 16,5cm Co...
Granite
Hand-Carved Neolithic Fish Sculpture in Granite, Primitive Art, China
Located in Somis, CA
Beautiful Neolithic style fish is carved from a single boulder. Its design is typical of China's ancient Red Mountain Culture. The stone has a brownish green color and the texture of polished granite...
Granite
$745Sale Price|63% Off
H 16.93 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Brutalist abstract sculpture in green granite, Dutch, 1960s, Wotruba style
By Fritz Wotruba
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Handcarved sculpture of a abstract shape in brutalist style, This sculpture with in a stunning pink granite texture emphasizes the strong abstract shape. This sculpture with its r...
Granite
Abstract floor standing sculpture in Belgian granite
Located in London, GB
Abstract sculpture with elongated oval form, hand carved in Belgian granite. Boasting 57cm in height, this substantial piece features a smooth light polished finish and subtle grain....
Stone, Granite
Marble and Granite Table Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
Biomorphic marble carved sculpture and freestanding granite base. This item is currently in our Miami facility.
Granite, Marble
$1,500Sale Price|37% Off
H 63.75 in W 13 in D 13 in
Minimalist Abstract Sculpture in Stainless Steel, Granite, Lucite, Unsigned
Located in Miami, FL
Minimalist Abstract sculpture in stainless steel, granite, Lucite and is Unsigned Offered for sale is a large minimalist abstract sculp...
Granite, Stainless Steel
$1,144
H 12.5 in W 11 in D 2 in
Vintage Black Glazed Granite Abstract Sculpture on a Square Black Granite Base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Glazed Black Granite Abstract Sculpture on a Black Granite Square Base
Cast Stone, Granite
Rooster, Sculpture in Iron
By Michel Jarry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A rooster by a contemporary artist in cut and welded iron.
Iron
"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
Granite Wall Piece
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The design duo soft Baroque blur the boundaries between acceptable furniture typologies and conceptual representative objects. Trained in furniture and graphic design respectively, t...
Granite