Wallpaper*, November 1, 2012
The November issue of Wallpaper* is markedly Russian in its theme: the feature titled 'Empire Line' - which plays out a 'gastronomic imperial drama' - sees gallery designer Fabien Cappello's 'Drawn Candlesticks' amongst other precious objects fit for a tsar.
His 5-piece set of candlesticks made from lost-wax method brass casting saw Cappello create abstract outlines of various chess pieces before strategically forging them together in a series of totemic forms. Like Tatlin's infamous Monument to the Third International (1919-20) and Constructivist counter-reliefs, Cappello's designs are three dimensional drawings poised somewhere between sculpture and architecture.
