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

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