Rick Owens And Michèle Lamy Unveil Furnishings With A Twist

Rick Owens, the fashion designer dubbed the Lord of Darkness, and his wife and creative partner, Michèle Lamy, are renowned for their particular brand of occultic minimalism. Owens largely defers to Lamy on Rick Owens Furniture, he explains: “She’s the one directly working on the construction with her craftsman and artisans. It’s about coaxing something special out of a sensitive creative spirit.” To make the pieces, Lamy scavenges the globe for natural materials to recycle—the local butcher shop for bones, Polish swamps for wood, the Vatican for stone, etc. There’s Stag stools made of moose antlers tethered to seats of petrified wood or red-purple porphyry, Curial chairs of steel oxidized to a rust-red patina, and more. References are wide-ranging, from California skateparks to the work of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuši.