Jonathan Muecke

Jonathan Muecke’s design practice makes the most out of an idea. Much like the seminal Knoll pieces by modernist designers before him, it stems from a preoccupation with materials and their presence in space. For Muecke, “it’s about seeing things, and using things, and remaking things,” he says, “not necessarily inventing things.” The furniture and art objects he creates have a simplicity that belies the architectural and artistic theory that underpins them. By often using just a single material and by reiterating an object in various scales and proportions, Muecke’s process of reduction and abstraction functions as a kind of freedom. As a result, his work resists standard classification, instead blurring the lines between design, art and architecture.