
finely textured aluminum adorns A+A cooren's minimal furniture collection
April 2021

aki and arnaud cooren — a french-japanese design duo known as A+A cooren — unveil their ’tiss-tiss’ furniture collection at carpenters workshop gallery in london. the exhibition marks the designers’ first solo show in the UK and it features a number of pieces all with their signature textured aluminum design aesthetic, which designboom first featured back in 2017 with the award-winning tiss-tiss chair.
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