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Hand-Felted Folding Chairs
2006–present
hand-felted metal folding chairs
Collection of the artist
While studying furniture design at the Rhode Island School of Design, Aguiñiga felt a longing for her home and her culture, so she began experimenting with felting wool. She used this low-tech and portable craft to soften the skins of the utilitarian and iconic designs she had been studying, deconstructing them into a realm of "fuzzy" cultural ambiguity. Inspired by the techniques and bold colors of Latin American textiles, she produces inventive soft furniture designs like Lanky and Monadnock on view nearby. |