Arielle Assouline-Lichten is a designer in Greenpoint. Her studio, Slash Objects, transforms industrial waste materials like recycled rubber and tire byproducts into furniture and objects alongside brass and stone.
Recycled rubber, nero marquina marble, cast concrete, LEED-certified tire byproduct: these are the materials Arielle Assouline-Lichten keeps returning to. Her Greenpoint studio, Slash Objects, founded in 2016, began with gym floor samples sitting on a desk during an architecture project: she saw in them a furniture line waiting to exist. Trained at Harvard GSD and through stints at BIG, Snøhetta, and Kengo Kuma, she left large-scale practice for the smaller, stranger problem of making industrial waste look inevitable next to brass and stone. The animating question hasn't changed: what happens when a discarded material is placed somewhere it was never meant to be, and made to hold its own?
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