Felipe Pantone and emerging fashion designer Etai will debut their first collaborative exhibition, Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces, at Albertz Benda in Los Angeles. Opening on 17 July 2026, the exhibition explores the intersection of contemporary art, furniture design, textile experimentation, and domestic architecture.
Presented within the gallery’s mid-century modern residential space in Los Angeles, the exhibition positions furniture and wall-based artworks as part of a unified visual and functional system. Consequently, the presentation moves beyond conventional display formats by examining how design objects operate within lived environments shaped by intimacy, utility, and digital aesthetics.
“Albertz Benda is set to present Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces, a landmark exhibition marking the very first collaboration between Felipe Pantone and rising fashion-design voice Etai.”
The exhibition combines Pantone’s kinetic visual language with Etai’s approach to garment structure and material reconstruction. Moreover, the collaborative works transform sourced mid-century furniture into hybrid objects integrating textile intervention, digital mapping, and sculptural reconfiguration.
Mid-Century Furniture Reworked Through Textile and Digital Systems
The project began with vintage furniture pieces sourced throughout Los Angeles, which Etai digitally scanned and restructured before physical modification. In addition, the process introduced a layered design methodology where historical forms interact with contemporary visual systems.
“The physical workflow began with mid-century furniture sourced across Los Angeles, which Etai digitally mapped and reworked as a foundation for physical transformation.”
Pantone subsequently developed custom textile components produced in collaboration with Limonta, the historic Italian textile house known for experimental fabric production. These textiles incorporate Pantone’s signature chromatic gradients, optical patterns, and digitally influenced imagery while maintaining the furniture’s functional integrity.
“Pantone then designed custom, high-concept fabric elements produced by the historic Italian textile house Limonta.”
The resulting works merge decorative surface, industrial design, and visual abstraction into a single system. Therefore, the exhibition reflects broader conversations surrounding contemporary collectible design, adaptive reuse, and the relationship between digital culture and material production.
Kinetic Art and Domestic Space Shape the Exhibition Environment
Alongside the furniture pieces, Pantone’s kinetic wall-based artworks create visual continuity throughout the exhibition space. Furthermore, the works utilise rhythm, repetition, and optical movement to mirror the speed and circulation of digital information systems.
“Functioning as both conceptual accelerators and visual anchors, Pantone’s signature wall-based kinetic artworks are displayed in direct dialogue with the furniture.”
The chromatic and structural language established through the wall works extends directly into the collaborative furniture and textile installations. As a result, the exhibition transforms the gallery’s residential architecture into an immersive environment where art, design, and domesticity continuously overlap.
“These pieces utilize optical effects driven by rhythm, velocity and repetition to mirror modern systems of digital circulation and data flow.”
Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces will remain on view at Albertz Benda in Los Angeles through 8 August 2026. The exhibition also reinforces the growing convergence between contemporary art, fashion design, collectible furniture, and immersive spatial presentation within international design culture.