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VESSEL, 2025

Brooklyn, new York

Gabriela Mestriner​

To make space for what endures, some forms need to be undone. Not as opposition, but as release — a questioning of familiar structures and of how they shape our behavior and the atmospheres we inhabit. What remains is not order, but relation. Meaning settles as residue — traces of memory, of knowledge once held at a distance. Some stories were never absent, only waiting for a surface willing to receive them.

Vessel is not made to contain, but to relate. A grounded yet slightly floating structure, shaped by hand in steel and cork, holding the tension between weight and softness, between steadiness and care.

In stillness, it exists as possibility. What is placed upon it enters the work — not through order, but through openness. Vessel does not resolve. It holds space. A place to return, to linger, to remember otherwise. To exist, to bring meaning to objects, differently for each person.

Conceived as a coffee table, Vessel invites books to remain open. Knowledge is not stored or displayed, but lived with. Once gathered by objects, knowledge here becomes part of the object itself — central, structural, quietly shaping how the piece exists and how it is used.

Vessel table Process 
Crafted by hand from 11-gauge hot-rolled steel and low-density cork through a process of bending, cutting, and assembling.

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