"RALPH PUCCI's exhibition PURE lives up to its title by presenting 13 designers' work exclusively in white plasterglass, stripping away the distractions of color and patina to force attention toward what remains: the articulation of volume, the trace of fingers in material, and the relationship between hand and form that defines sculptural furniture at its highest expression."
"This proprietary composite maintains the chalky, light-absorbing surface of plaster while eliminating its inherent fragility. The material preserves every mark from the original sculpting process, fingerprints and tool marks becoming permanent calligraphy that documents the maker's hand. Unlike bronze casting, which can erase evidence of touch through patination and finishing, or polished resins that render surfaces anonymous, plasterglass holds visible tension between the gestural and the permanent."
A New York sculpture studio staged work within Oscar Niemeyer's crystalline pavilion at Château La Coste to interrogate luxury furniture as both art and function. The PURE exhibition presents 13 designers' pieces rendered exclusively in a proprietary plasterglass that mimics plaster's chalky, light-absorbing surface while adding durability. The material preserves fingerprints and tool marks as permanent records of process, making each piece read as an arrested moment of making. Plasterglass resists the anonymity of polished resins and the erasure of touch common in bronze finishing, foregrounding volume, gesture, and the relationship between hand and form.
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