Anna Karlin Studio

Fall 2018

108 Eldridge Street, New York, NY

I was tasked by Anna Karlin to design window displays that conveyed the essence of her work and studio without being a product advertisement. Karlin’s goal in creations is to cultivate a sense of familiarity through her use of natural materials and elemental shapes, then use this intimate feeling to open people up to her experimentation in process and detail. Her work thrives on the tension between opposites: natural and industrial, rough and polished, old and new. With this in mind, I decided to play with the idea of balance among these tensions. Balance in a literal sense, as the placement of some of the objects were carefully resting on each other almost to the brink of collapse, but also a balance, or collision, of geometric and organic forms, colors and textures.