REM Collection: Double Knot, 2024
Nick Missel
REM Collection: Double Knot, 2024
Fiberglass, resin, Automotive paint
38 x 97 x 33 in
The REM Collection refers to the dream state where our minds are most active, wandering, expanding, and getting lost deep within ourselves. The artist’s REM collection is created by contorting and freezing mattress egg crate foam with resin. Says Missel, “I ask these materials to become something they don’t want, soft becomes hard, collapse becomes structure.” Missel was drawn to the industrial aesthetic of the repeating pattern of the egg crate foam and how it overlaps with nature, allowing these characteristics to contrast with the flat planes and create both friction and cohesion in the work.
A continuation of the REM Collection series first introduced at Design Miami LA 2024, Missel’s monumental 8-foot Double Knot table reimagines the utilitarian egg-crate foam, freezing its tessellated texture in resin to create a functional sculpture that is both captivating and conceptual.
Without compromising functionality, Missel’s work swings big, and is increasingly hard to categorize. “If I was just playing around with form and material, I would call myself a furniture designer,” he says. “But I think there’s more to it—I hope that each piece is surprising, exciting and a unique experience that you can’t really find anywhere.” The sculptures are otherworldly, almost digital, transporting you to the realm of fantasy while simultaneously grounded in the real texture and forms of the remnants of the objects they come from.
