46 DEPARTURES CULTURE
46 DEPARTURES CULTURE ON DISPLAY walls”, and “the sense of identity that we all seek in a sense of belonging”. Aaron Poritz, a designer and artist whose studio is in Brooklyn, started working in ceramics and wood at an early age. After studying architecture, Poritz decided to design furniture in wood. Among his limited-edition pieces, which are shown at New York’s Cristina Grajales Gallery, Poritz’s Tambour collection of cabinets takes traditional tambour doors and adds the natural patterns of veneers made from woods like black walnut. “A lot of my pieces are frames for naturally occurring phenomena,” he says. Poritz also creates ceramic vessels, and has been exploring sculpture. He worries that “the space where the authentic and the real are actually happening is quite small”. But if his work is any indication, that space is only getting bigger. As Chen puts it, craft is “a never-ending story that speaks to a profound desire, a human need to find meaning in things and how they’re made”. Finalists for the Loewe Craft Prize include (top) Korean artist Youngsoon Lee’s Cocoon Top Series 1, which is made from mulberry paper, loewe.com; and Deloss Webber’s Geisha Handbag Series, made from susutake bamboo, rattan and granite, rovzargallery.com
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