Extra Ordinary

The Aram Gallery presents an exhibition of young designers working with ordinary materials, products or processes to discover new ways to look at the stuff that surrounds us.

Krupka-Stieghan Studio, Recreate Textiles

Whether that’s drilling through a ten cent coin to make a gold ring, compressing leather scraps into table legs or moulding bubble wrap into vases – all the designers selected for the Aram Gallery’s exhibition “Extra Ordinary” show incredible resourcefulness, imagination and daring.

They find new ways to look at the stuff that surrounds us.

“Extra Ordinary”, view of the exhibition at the Aram Gallery. Photo © Amandine Alessandra

Out of the ordinary, these designers have discovered surprising aesthetics, created structure from surface materials, invented new and sophisticated methods for recycling and intervened in existing paths for manufacture.

Their work questions attitudes of value and beauty, and poses alternative directions for craft and industry.