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Cardboard Boxes Transformed into Sculptural Stools for Bottega Veneta

For Bottega Veneta's Summer 2027 show, artist Illya Goldman Gubin has created unique seating by reshaping ordinary cardboard boxes into sculptural stools.

Goldman Gubin shapes each box through direct physical contact, crumpling and deforming it before reinforcing the structure with resin and fiberglass. The process leaves visible marks and irregularities, ensuring each stool is unique.

The resulting pieces retain the identity of the original boxes, with folded and interlocking flaps that evoke Bottega Veneta's signature Intrecciato leather technique.

This transformation gives a new purpose to discarded material, turning a container for objects into furniture designed to carry people.

Cardboard has been a recurring medium for Goldman Gubin, used in various sculptures, installations, and furniture designs.

The artist's physical interaction with the material is evident in the final forms, preserving traces of his gestures.

The original structure of the boxes is utilized to create the interlocking effect, with the material's history legible beneath the hardened surface.

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