Forest Spring tall concrete cabinet


FOREST SPRING
White pigmented cast concrete cabinet

by Stefan Buxbaum, 2023


SIZE: 180 x 90 x 50 cm // H: 70.86” x W: 35.43” x D: 19.68”
MATERIAL: cast concrete, steel feet, concrete shelves. Cast in a lightweight technique. Corpus cast in one piece.
Suitable for outdoors.
UNIQUE PIECE

FOREST SPRING is a new cast concrete cabinet, with plant relief imprints. The plants were harvested in spring 2023 and conserved for eternity on the doors of the cabinet.

The piece is from a new collection of unique cast concrete cabinets and furniture by the artist Stefan Buxbaum that evoke a surprising sensation, the brutalist concrete being in contrast with the softness and sensibility of nature and plant specimens cast with the material.

A cabinet of reminiscence. The beauty of the plants takes centre stage in this piece. Their tender waves combined with the chaste, glacial concrete tell the story of a melancholic yet noble goodbye, the remembrance of a once blooming tale of springtime, a sigh and a cry, to release and to long. 

The cupboards of Stefan Buxbaum - a casting and concrete expert - are technical feats: the corpus is cast in one piece, in a lightweight technique. For his emblematic plant models, the artist applies his chosen specimens and petrifies those paragons of beauty as permanent reliefs onto the surfaces.

We are reminded of the art deco era or Jugendstil, however, in new flesh, projected into the present and the future through the use of this contemporary material concrete. Suitable for outdoors.