ON THE DOORWAY (2011) | Nicolas Cheng

ON THE DOORWAY

(2011)

A collection of door furniture where both mundane and precious materials are used across hierarchies of value; the pieces overall investigate ideas of domestic and familiarity, the interstice between private and public, as well as the polarity decorative and functional. The crafted door knobs and handles are themselves dialectic objects: unite materials specific to domestic spaces (salt, copper, textile, etc.) to others that are more precious, more akin to the jeweller’s art (ebony, silver, marble, jet etc.), but without ever betraying the sensible properties of one or the other, thereby exalting intrinsic expressiveness: they are fragile and therefore precious objects, that are familiar, nonetheless, the way a jewel must be in the end.