DESIGNER - MAKER
Israel D. Bush (b.1974) creates sculptural furniture and architectural objects that unifies a life-long interest in functional design and artistic expression. Informed by his upbringing as a third-generation craftsman and his background in set design, Israel’s creative process involves meticulous planning, calculation and drafting to create functional objects that aim to extend far beyond the horizon of creative possibility.
MISSION CONTROL
LUNAR PHASES | Photography by Brian Hodges
Israel’s latest project Mission Control consists of a limited edition series of 11 executive desks that combine traditional craftsmanship with a contemporary aesthetic sensibility. Drawing influence from across disciplines, Mission Control is inspired by landscapes as far-reaching as the windswept forms of sand dunes to the biomorphic curves of skatepark design to the free-form shapes of atomic-age furniture in a painstaking synthesis between function and form. Boasting a cantilevered structural focal-point, a sinuous silhouette and an understated American White Oak and epoxy resin finish, Mission Control distills and captures in one object that moment of gravity-defying weightlessness, of a striving beyond what is humanly possible to which everyone — from the skateboarder to the astronaut — aspires.
By Kasumi Borczyk
MISSION CONTROL IN MOTION
SOLAR FLARE | Videography and Composition by Joshua Giudice
DUNE
Born out of a love for the fantastical world of the Jetsons and windswept forms of sand dunes, the Dune Desk represents the first piece in Israel’s furniture collection.
