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Brutalist Beauty – The Magazine Stable by Australian Designer Brad Wray
As you know, I’m a big fan of functional design, so this piece of furniture by Melbourne-based maker Brad Wray is very much in tune with this philosophy.
Intended to be something of permanence, The Magazine Stable is an experiment in creating a smaller object of multi-purpose that follows the principles of ‘less but better’. It can form a side table, magazine rack and reading stool, with the raw concrete forming the main body and a removable solid timber insert as a table top.
I certainly like the concept of revolting against our ‘throw-away’ society, and in turn making something of stature that can weather the test of time. It also brings back some fond memories for myself, revolving around Brutalist structures when I was a young child definitely intrigued me. I have always been drawn to the shadows created by such vast areas of concrete, as well as the raw nature of such a material. So this piece here could be classed as sculpture or a piece of architecture, which I think makes it all the more intriguing.