Slash Objects is a Brooklyn furniture and product studio founded by Arielle Assouline-Lichten, working with recycled rubber, stone, and resin at the intersection of industrial material and sculptural form.
Recycled tire rubber was not supposed to be the starting material for a furniture practice. But when Arielle Assouline-Lichten saw a gym's rubber flooring sample sitting next to marble, brass, and steel swatches during an architecture project in Soho, something clicked. Slash Objects grew from that collision: pairing post-consumer recycled rubber with Nero Marquina marble, onyx, concrete, and brushed nickel to make benches, lamps, daybeds, and side tables that are built to outlast trends and landfills both. The Greenpoint studio works with local fabricators, sources stone remnants from a nearby marble yard, and treats imperfection as material: the 'Unbroken' collection, named a New York Times standout from the Design Festival, turns fractured marble and onyx into furniture and lighting that ask what it means for a material to age. The through-line is constraint as generative force: every Slash Objects piece begins with a discarded or overlooked substance and asks what beauty it was always capable of.
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