Florescence

On display in Gallery 2 is a new design collection for Melbourne Design Week by A&A.

The suite of three pods and one table is inspired by the process or period of a plant’s flowering, known as florescence.

Each pod is composed of three intersecting sphericons – a sphericon being a ‘paradoxical solid’ made from the combination of four half-cones. Each pod has a removable lid and comes in a different colourway – red, yellow, blue.

Complementing these unorthodox shapes is the hemispheric ‘Lotus table’ with a flat top, similarly resplendent in an all-over geometric pattern of pink, red, purple, blue and black. The table echoes the lotus-flower design of A&A’s ‘Bloom cabinet’, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.