Tired of the "is it art?" arguement, Chris Bundy and Ross Menuez of Prototype & Production simply consider aesthetic value as the incidental appeal of stellar construction. They site a motley crew of predecessors in this ideology: Miu Miu, Buckminster Fuller, X-Ray equipment and the Shakers. The team's cool-headed approach is rendered in metal, plastic, rubber, cork, ceramic, and felt.

P&P recently rendered a high-profile project for the cocktail-sipping space in Manhattan's Standard hotel. Now manufactured by commercial heavy-hitters like Japan's IDEE and Habitat in the UK, the work also appears in splashy art books and exhibits from Tokyo to the Denver Art Museun (next spring).
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