Rasca CielosSold

Architectural verticality translates to the domestic scale in a piece that blurs the boundary between furniture and sculpture. The backrest, conceived in the unmistakable silhouette of a stepped Art Deco skyscraper, establishes a rigorous order where lateral towers flank a grayish central mass, crowned by a diminutive red spire. Rather than acting as a mere applied ornament, the concept of the skyscraper organizes the entirety of the structure, determining proportions, tensions, and voids.

In the front legs, the wood abandons the continuous vertical line to resolve into a rhythm of frets and orthogonal cutouts. This geometric openwork lightens the mass of the piece and echoes, on a lower plane, the angular setbacks and stepped cornices above. The seat, upholstered in a deep blue fabric of matte and enveloping texture, provides the sole tactile counterpoint to the clean hardness of the carved edges. It functions as a horizontal pause that separates two constructive systems: the reticular base and the monolithic elevation of the backrest.

Light across the wood reveals a deliberate alternation between neutral painted planes and surfaces where the organic grain remains visible. This coexistence between the industrial vernacular of the modern metropolis and the warmth of the natural material generates a subtle tension. The work invites an understanding of the vertical city not as an unattainable concrete skyline, but as an object inhabited at human scale, where the act of sitting means resting against the very silhouette of the urban landscape.