Renowned for creating objects that celebrate the beauty and quiet poetry of everyday life, Italian designer Martino Gamper’s exhibition Engrained, currently on view at Objectspace, is entering its final days.

As this project draws to a close, we are pleased to present this accompanying selection of works.

This body of work was produced using a timber Gamper designed in collaboration with Italian company ALPI. The material is made from the waste stream of industrial veneer production through a process of dyeing, press-bonding and compressing.

This gives form to a new type of human-made timber – a reimagined material that possesses a language of grain and colour not found in naturally grown timbers.

For further information about the current exhibition at Objectspace please visit objectspace.org.nz.

Martino Gamper OBE (b. 1971, Merano, Italy) lives and works in London. Starting as an apprentice with a furniture maker in Merano, Gamper went on to study sculpture under Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He completed a master’s in 2000 from the Royal College of Art, London, where he studied under Ron Arad.

Gamper was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to design. He was the recipient of the Moroso Award for Contemporary Art in 2011, and the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, Furniture Award in 2008 for 100 Chairs in 100 Days.