Coexist Credenza
Coexist Credenza is a minimalist credenza created by New York and Paris-based studio Arielle Assouline-Lichten of Slash Objects. The collection emerges from a fundamental material tension – the meeting point where metal’s industrial precision encounters stone’s geological permanence. Arielle constructs each piece as a study in equilibrium, using geometry not as decoration but as the essential language that allows disparate materials to exist in balance. The work operates at the threshold between architectural permanence and furniture’s intimate scale, where every proportion becomes a negotiation between opposing forces.
Metal frames establish the structural logic – clean lines that organize space with industrial clarity. Against this rational framework, stone introduces organic variation and geological time. The materials do not simply coexist but actively reflect each other’s qualities. Polished metal surfaces catch and multiply stone’s subtle color shifts, while stone’s mass grounds metal’s linear lightness. This dialogue happens through touch as much as sight. Cold metal warms where hands rest, dense stone reveals unexpected lightness in cantilevered sections, and each surface interaction creates awareness of material behavior.
Fabricated with Mingardo, an Italian metal workshop founded in 1970, the piece carries forward a lineage connected to Carlo Scarpa’s Venice. That connection matters not as heritage marketing but as living craft knowledge – the kind of precision that understands how metal edges can be refined to near-disappearance, how joints can achieve both structural necessity and visual quietness. Mingardo’s contribution brings decades of metalworking expertise that knows exactly how thin a steel frame can become while maintaining strength, exactly how surfaces should be finished to hold light without glare.
Stone components arrive from separate specialists, each material sourced and worked by artisans who understand its particular nature. Marble cutting requires different knowledge than steel fabrication – different tools, different tolerances, different relationships between maker and material. Slash Objects orchestrates these separate expertises into unified objects, directing a collaborative process across three countries and multiple workshops.
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