Misha Kahn Explores Relationship Between Humans & Machines in "Optimistic Design Show"

American designer Misha Kahn is displaying his plush and sculptural objects at New York's Friedman Benda gallery as part of his "Soft Bodies, Hard Spaces" exhibition. Intended to showcase a positive relationship between humans and machines, the "optimistic design show" includes unusually shaped and curved objects made from metal casting, hand weaving, digital modeling, and glass collaging.Interested in the incongruity of our "strange, soft bodies" within the "hard, violent right angles" in which...