Showing at this years London Design Festival, Phillip Aduatz’s Melting Chair looks like a shape-shifting, melting mirror. The chair, made of glass fiber reinforced polymer, is coated in silver and scratch resistent lacquer.

Check out more photos of the chair after the jump.

The man behind the Staircase installation at Tate Modern takes on a new set of ideas in his Specimen Series, which features a new set of nylon fabric household objects found in his own home. The series explores “perception of our surroundings and how one is able to construct memory from a space.” His Specimen Series, along with two other exhibits titled Fallen Star 1/5 and Home Within a Home, will show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery beginning September 8 through October 22.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 W 26th Street
New York NY, 10001

More images after the jump.

Primary Wave Music is hosting select pieces from Olek’s recent Knitting Is For P*****, an exhibition that first premiered at the Christopher Henry Gallery. Olek’s “Yoko Ono Grapefruit tribute” and her signature full body crocheted people were on hand for last night’s opening.

Photography by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

I love this installation. On view through May 27, 2012 in the Vradenburg Café at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

Lee Boroson is a Brooklyn-based textile artist.

Hailing from Ireland, Claire-Anne O’Brien is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art. Her work finds intersection in textiles and furniture, and in the case of the Knit Stools strikes the balance with undeniable charm.

About the stools -

Inspired by elements of the knitted stitch itself such as rings and loops, the structures are revealed and celebrated through exaggerated scale in bold and textured forms. Lambswool and Sheeps wool, in a mix of hand and machine knit stitches, are constructed into playful statement pieces.

A full look at Knit Stools after the jump.

Refashioned opens on May 21, 2011 and will feature 20 objects by a trio of artists who employ garments to explore historical narrative. Include are Lauren Gillette, Anne Lemanski, and Angelika Werth. Each is interested in the conventions of outward appearance and how these convey the details of life.

The exhibition will run at The Portland Museum of Art through July 21, 2011.

Full press release and assorted images after the jump.

Philadelphia’s Pentimenti Gallery shared the terrific work of Matthew Cox at Pulse (open through March 6, 2011). Cox embroiders on x-ray, forming works that are rich in color, texture, and (obviously) juxtaposition of material. Certainly a show highlight.

Photograph by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

View more of Matthew Cox after the jump.