{"id":200926,"date":"2022-09-16T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=200926"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T19:25:55","slug":"kickie-chudikova-installation-nycxdesign-caesarstone-dumbo","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/kickie-chudikova-installation-nycxdesign-caesarstone-dumbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickie Chudikova Unveils Her ‘Spiral of Life’ Installation in DUMBO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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September 16, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Carlene Olsen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kickie Chudikova Unveils Her ‘Spiral of Life’ Installation in DUMBO <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Most public benches hardly command a glance, let alone offer meditations on their surroundings, but designer Kickie Chudikova<\/a> set out to change that. Her public sculpture, Spiral of Life<\/em>, offers a sinuous contrast to its linear backdrop beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and was unveiled before an intimate crowd September 15 as a winner of NYCxDESIGN’s inaugural IMPACTxDESIGN competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the IMPACTxDESIGN competition<\/a>, designers were challenged to use Caesarstone’s material in new ways to foster public engagement and community\u2014Spiral of Life<\/em> does exactly that. Chudikova’s sculpture, which doubles as a conversation starter, seems as if it’s always in motion given its undulating form made from waterjet-cut pieces of Caesarstone’s quartz Outdoor Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The whole idea was to give people a playground to sit however they like,” Chudikova told Debbie Millman, host of The Mic podcast, during a panel discussion later that evening at BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group<\/a>‘s DUMBO office. “It’s such a challenge to design something three-dimensional out of two-dimensional slabs.” She shared that a childhood toy of a dinosaur skeleton served as inspiration. Like the toy, her modular bench consists of bonelike pieces connected by a single metal structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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