Fairies Wear Boots Cocktail Stand The hand carved forms dance

The hand carved forms dance and flicker

Hand-shaped Eastern ash sculpted through exposed joinery

Its distorted forms verge on the ornamentation of baroque design while simultaneously standing in opposition to the pervading minimalism of modernism

raw aluminum

Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia

Fairies Wear Boots Cocktail Stand The hand carved forms danceDistilling the concept of strut to both its structural formality as well as its connection to drag and sashay pageantry, Realm looked towards ancient Etruscan tripod vessels as objects that convey both concepts in tandem. Often used to support cauldrons or braziers and fabricated with bronze struts terminating in cabriole hoofed feet. We sought to reinterpret these classic artifacts into an extraterrestrial table top object that could support anything