RISD Exposé opening

Last Friday was the opening of RISD Exposé, a pop-up store in downtown Providence that is dedicated toward current RISD students slinging their art and design work like there’s no tomorrow.  Here are a few standouts from the show.

WHAPOW here is a thing called “Chair + Chair = Bench” by Jiwon Choi, who I guess is this person?  Or who maybe doesn’t have a website.  Anyway, I guess we’re supposed to go ahead and tip this over sometime when we need a bench, but no one will ever do that because it looks totally boss standing up like this, no?

Asking price:  $3000-$5000 (?)

And here is Alicia Lew’s duffel bag/purse thing made out of solid Swarovski crystal.  Thank you, Alicia, for putting business cards with your website on them!  Makes writing about this a breeze.  $980.

This one stole the show – the “Anti-Prism” table by Rosie Li, made of partially-ebonized ash.  The precise edges on this were lovely.  The form reminds me of those Wendy’s sour cream packets, in a good way.  Rosie, if you’re out there, and you have a website, please send it to us! $875.

This one didn’t have a label, but, holy crap.

Check out more pics from the opening at Flickr