Nitush-Aroosh
Nitush + Aroosh · contemporary
OVERVIEW
A studio based in Gurgaon, India, working almost entirely in stainless steel. The catalogue runs across benches, mirrors, lamps, poufs and planters, all of them formed into rounded, swollen volumes rather than fabricated from flat sheet and visible welds.
Named pieces include the Tronco bench and pouf, the Lasso mirror, and the Molecule and Mushroom floor lamps.
WHY IT MATTERS
Hydroformed stainless steel makes metal feel fluid and bodily—an excellent contemporary bridge between industrial severity and sensual form.
CONTEXT
The studio's own description is about blending tradition with innovation and making stainless steel sculptures that redefine a space. The work sits in the contemporary market for polished-metal collectible design, where the appeal is a hard industrial material behaving like something soft.
What is visible in the pieces, rather than claimed for them, is a forming process that leaves no seam: the volumes read as inflated rather than assembled.
WHAT TO NOTICE
- 01Steel behaving like a bodyThe forms are rounded and slightly asymmetric. The material is the hardest thing in the room and the shapes are the softest.
- 02No seamsLook for a weld line. On the better pieces you will not find one, which is the whole effect.
- 03The room lands on the objectA mirror finish has no colour of its own. Everything you see on the surface is the space it is standing in.
CONNECTIONS
- STEEL, TWO FINISHESSaintleo / Leon McKay / Saintleo
One studio forms stainless until the seams disappear and the room lands on the surface; the other leaves steel legible as steel and resolves it at the edges. The same material used to opposite ends.
EXPLORE FURTHER
- OFFICIAL / nitusharoosh.comNitush & Aroosh
The studio's catalogue of stainless steel pieces.
