Gay Gae by Robert Stadler

For the OMG-GMO project, Robert Stadler borrows the forms of these engineered fruit and vegetables to create ten ceramic, hand-painted objects that ironically transform the organic into something structural and functional. Conceived as a series of small-scale monuments, these objects both criticise and mock human manipulation of nature: a slice of a Japanese rectangular seedless watermelon becomes a stool, zucchini bend in a perfect L shape to create a set of shelves, and wheel-like aubergines support a glass coffee table, as a reference to Gae Aulenti’s Tavolo...

Carwan Gallery presents a much-anticipated new commission by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler this September, inside Philip Johnson’s signature Glass...

For the OMG-GMO project, Robert Stadler borrows the forms of these engineered fruit and vegetables to create ten ceramic, hand-painted objects that ironically transform the organic into something structural and functional. Conceived as a series of small-scale monuments, these objects both criticise and mock human manipulation of nature: a slice of a Japanese rectangular seedless watermelon becomes a stool, zucchini bend in a perfect L shape to create a set of shelves, and wheel-like aubergines support a glass coffee table, as a reference to Gae Aulenti’s Tavolo...

Carwan Gallery presents a much-anticipated new commission by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler this September, inside Philip Johnson’s signature Glass...

Carwan Gallery presents a much-anticipated new commission by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler this September, inside Philip Johnson’s signature Glass...

Carwan Gallery presents a much-anticipated new commission by Paris-based designer Robert Stadler this September, inside Philip Johnson’s signature Glass...

Carrara marble "Jumbo" table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International. Made in Italy circa 1960s.

Coffee table inspired by the Gae bookcase. The curved elements are in light Tay and leather with a matt gold Calacatta marble top. Metal supports are in bronze-gold finish.

Coffee table inspired by the Gae bookcase. The curved elements are in dark Tay with a matt green Lepanto marble top. Metal supports are in bronze-gold finish.

Coffee table inspired by the Gae bookcase. The curved elements are in light Tay and leather with a matt gold Calacatta marble top. Metal supports are in bronze-gold finish.

Coffee table inspired by the Gae bookcase. The curved elements are in dark Tay with a matt green Lepanto marble top. Metal supports are in bronze-gold finish.

Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect active during the post-war period has designed buildings, interiors, furniture and lamps during her career, many of them well-known such as the Musé...