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subscribe to style file blog via RSSHugh Hayden, Tennis Ball Ace
August 13, 2009 9:49 am
Any avid tennis player has faced the conundrum of what to do with a can full of dead balls. If you don’t have a dog, there’s really not much use for a ball that’s been whacked into submission—unless, that is, you know Hugh Hayden. The Brooklyn-based furniture designer has made his reputation on chairs built from tennis balls long past their topspin days, and now he’s putting a whole Wimbledon’s worth of them to work at his installation at the Hayden-Harnett store in Nolita. According to Toni Hacker, one of Hayden-Harnett’s co-founders, Hayden was given carte blanche to do with the store as he likes. “It’s completely site-specific,” she explained of the installation, which opened last night and will stay up for the next three weeks. “He’s created a whole bunch of new furniture using the recycled tennis balls, and suspended our bags from the ceiling, and some other stuff, too.” As Hacker goes on to note, she asked Hayden to have a go at the Nolita shop because she found the combination of playfulness and pragmatism in his work in keeping with the spirit of her own fast-expanding brand. “Also,” she adds, “it’s a little uncanny, his last name being Hayden and all.”
tags: Hugh Hayden, Toni Hacker
Genius! Hugh’s chairs are amazing..Philippe Starck watch your back!
By SharonF on 08/13/09 at 12:38 pm