source: 5osatistory

Mix the aesthetics of Alvar Aalto, Isamu Noguchi, and Henry Moore with a touch of Taoism and Isaac Newton, and the result could be Byung Hoon Choi. A sculptor, he is also considered a pioneer of contemporary South Korean art furniture, and his pieces are in the permanent collections of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His debut U.S. solo exhibition, “In One Stroke,” opens at New York’s Friedman Benda gallery on February 27. While he has previously worked with wood and granite and recently experimented with carbon fiber, the 11 monumental benches in the show are his first in basalt. Some of it has been polished, and some has been left raw—the combination a tribute to ancient megalithic tombs and the mountainous provinces where he grew up.
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source: arteydecoracion

Arte, elegancia, perfección y modernidad son solo algunas de las características que podemos resaltar en esta serie de once bancos diseñados en basalto por el diseñador y escultor coreano Byung Hoon Choi y que han sido exhibidas en la Galería Friedman Benda de Nueva York en los Estados Unidos.

Cada uno de los muebles que compone la colección ha sido tallado en piedra de basalto con formas orgánicas y geométricas que se conjugan con la naturaleza. Como podemos ver e las imágenes, los bancos han sido tallados en grandes bloques de piedra que presentan dos tipos de acabado mezclados en sus formas, el rustico y el perfectamente pulido.

Las líneas de movimiento formadas por los cilindros curvados se compensan con bloques rústicos de piedra que surgen de una misma unidad de piedra y dan justamente la personalidad a una serie de muebles que más de uno quisiera tener al exterior de su vivienda.
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source: inhalemag

Byung-Hoon Choi is an internationally respected master of 20th century Korean design. His soft, organic forms capture the tranquility of his country’s landscape. The play of weight in his furniture design seems to conquer the notion of balance, creating an almost magical sense of strength and stability from within each piece. His work calls to mind that of icons such as Alvar Aalto, Isamu Noguchi and Henry Moore, but is wholly singular in Choi’s evocation of Korean cultural symbols and his own artistic vision.
In his work he has explored stack-laminated wood construction and exquisitely carved wooden surfaces combined with stone. In recent work he experiments with carbon fiber, a feather-light new material that he juxtaposes beautifully with dense black granite.