{"id":10091,"date":"2022-12-07T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10091"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:20:14","slug":"raphael-navot-at-friedman-benda-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/07\/raphael-navot-at-friedman-benda-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Navot at Friedman Benda Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-based designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphaelnavot.com\/\">Raphael Navot<\/a>\u2019s furniture, now on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friedmanbenda.com\/exhibitions\/raphael-navot-on-the-same-subject\/\">Friedman Benda Gallery<\/a>, begs to be touched. The gallery explains that the soft, curving forms of this couch, titled \u2018Entwined,\u2019 demonstrate the concept of comfort as something experienced both mentally and physically.\u00a0 Though velvet upholstery resembles the surface of rock, and Navot intends to harken back to what the gallery calls the first furniture, \u2018a pile of rounded rocks,\u2019 the sheer tactility of the sofa\u2019s sweeping curves makes softness irrelevant.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Dec 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/749e7ff8-2b64-ddbb-1ab9-9c0b4ee236df.jpg\" width=\"3769\" height=\"3024\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Navot, Entwined, velvet, bronze, fiberglass, 3D-milled foam, 36.75 x 56.25 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris-based designer Raphael Navot\u2019s furniture, now on view at Friedman Benda Gallery, begs to be touched. The gallery explains that the soft, curving forms of this couch, titled \u2018Entwined,\u2019 demonstrate the concept of comfort as something experienced both mentally and physically.\u00a0 Though velvet upholstery resembles the surface of rock, and Navot intends to harken back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/07\/raphael-navot-at-friedman-benda-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raphael Navot at Friedman Benda Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[117,2224,1225,10121,3048,1513,13,10122,10120,2200],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea","tag-couch","tag-design","tag-entwined","tag-friedman-benda","tag-furniture","tag-gallery","tag-pile-of-stones","tag-raphael-navot","tag-sofa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2CL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10092,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}