Arno Mathies

Getting the high praise and coverage it fully deserves is the awesome foldboat project, by Arno Mathies  with Max Frommeld. But Mathies goes further and deeper for me with his own work. His cardboard Gruff series is a wonder; ideologically, in construction and aesthetically. In his (new work?) Mathies is "Interested in the boundaries of the fake and the real, Render furniture is project made using the qualities and realities brought from rendering programes. The project focuses on trying to recreate the material and texture properties created from the renders into furniture. Everything is fake except for the table tops thus challenging the boundaries between the real and the fake". 
This is obviously a comment on the state of mass produced (fake wood) laminate furniture to some extent. But really it's asking why a fake wood table has to look like a real wood table when it does not require the same constructional methods. It's like fake bacon rashers made for vegetarians. Why??? 
If you are going to fake something, make something completely new, different and much more exciting. 
There is a groundswell with this type of creative thought, attention to pattern, investigation into more abstract form coming out of the RCA at the moment, (and that is a good thing).