Corner Booth x Trash Gurl Treasures custom RAD Furniture Duo stools

For Los Angeles Design Weekend 2024, Corner Booth collaborated with artist Jaclyn Rusher-Mendoza (Trash Gurl Treasures) to customize a pair of bar stools by RAD Furniture.  The stools have been upholstered in hand-stitched salvaged fabrics, and woven into a quilted textile.  The fabric resembles organic shapes in creams, blues and greens;  born out of Rusher-Mendoza's daily practice of photographing tree shadows and recreating them in fabric form.  With this collaboration, they pay homage to the full-circle process rooted in a natural cycle, slowing down to observe, and appreciating the details. 

Schneider and Rusher-Mendoza envisioned the stool as the perfect product to illustrate what they believe makes hospitality - bars, hotels, restaurants - such magic spaces.  "Pull up a stool" is a universal concept that inspires conversation and community.  On the other hand, it allows us to be alone in our thoughts (drinking whiskey solo at the bar...) Stools are suitable in many contexts - public spaces, at home, in an artists' studio. And furthermore, when you grab a seat at the bar, you're front and center with the "makers" and people supplying the goods.  It's a very human place to be and introduces many choices of how to interact; opening yourself up to those around you, or purposefully closing yourself in.  Rusher-Mendoza’s hand dyed indigo quilts serve as a metaphor for this layered experience.

View the stools in person : 

June 22nd, 2024 at Justine’s Wine Bar in Frogtown - 2029 Blake Ave #104, Los Angeles, CA 90039

June 23rd, 2024 at Woon in Historic Filipinotown - 2920 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026