Snarkitecture

Snarkitecture opens immersive ‘fun house’ in Washington DC

Snarkitecture’s ‘Fun House’ has opened in the Great Hall of the National Building Museum in Washington DC as part of the institution’s annual Summer Block Party series and it’s likely to be the Instagram hit of the season. Following in the footsteps of...

Snarkitecture creates amphitheatrical installation for Caesarstone at Salone del Mobile

Subversion is to be expected from Snarkitecture. The New York design studio has consistently based its multi-disciplinary works – which range from furniture and product designs to art installations, experiential environments and architectural interventions – around notions of the unexpected...

From COS to Calvin Klein, Snarkitecture documents a decade of success in new monograph

Established by architect Alex Mustonen and artist Daniel Arsham in 2008, New York design studio Snarkitecture occupies an enthralling grey area between the worlds of art and architecture. In the relatively short space of ten years, its founders’ unique talent for...

Salone del Mobile 2018 preview: the 24 top exhibitions and installations

A new sustainable furniture collection by Snarkitecture and Pentatonic breaks the mould

Circular lifestyle brand Pentatonic launched last year with duo Jamie Hall (ex-NikeLab) and Johann Boedecker (formerly of Miniwiz) championing furniture, tableware and accessories made from post-consumer waste. The brand is now launching its inaugural designer collaboration, inviting New York firm...

Caesarstone taps Snarkitecture for a new experiment in kitchen design

It’s that time of year again when quartz specialist Caesarstone pushes the boundaries of their dynamic wares by collaborating with a design big-hitter. Recall last year’s folkloric playground by Jaime Hayon, or 2016’s elemental kitchens by Tom Dixon, each project...

Snarkitecture and COS lose (and find) their marbles in Seoul

In 2014, Snarkitecture presented ‘​Marble Run’ – an interpretation of the popular children’s toy where marbles wind around a path – at the Delano during Art Basel in Miami Beach. Visitors plucked black marbles from a circular, mirrored plinth, dropping them anywhere...

Architects take to the streets for the inaugural edition of Exhibit Columbus

Home to more than 80 buildings, landscapes, and public artworks by internationally noted architects and artists – including Eero and Eliel Saarinen, IM Pei, Kevin Roche, Harry Weese, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to name just a few –...

On reflection: Gufram and Snarkitecture team up on a colossal mirror

There is always an element of surprise around Gufram’s Salone del Mobile launches. Its wacky and outlandish products may not always functional, but the radical brand’s experimental streak keep us on our toes. This year is no different as Gufram’s inaugural...

White out: Snarkitecture imagines a ‘colourless colour revolution’ for Valextra

Italian luxury brand Valextra unveiled the latest chapter in its ongoing series of aesthetic reinventions, with a new pop-up store design by American duo Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham of Snarkitecture. The pair worked on Valextra’s via Manzoni boutique, applying...

Eye openers: corrective lenses have lent colour to artist Daniel Arsham’s monochromatic output

Glimpses of a ghostly, monochrome world are what mark out Daniel Arsham. The New York-based artist, and co-founder of experimental design and architecture practice Snarkitecture, has long been moulding his own blend of art, performance and architecture in a hypnotic...

White water: Snarkitecture brings its beach installation to Tampa Bay

When the mercury rises, human instinct leads most of us to the sandy shores of the nearest beach, where the healing powers of cool water calms hearts and minds. In Tampa Bay, Florida, relief is coming in a different form...