TOM PATTI DESIGN

 
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 INSTALLATIONS

 
My approach is personal and solitary, with its own unique evolution where I’m constantly working on many personal project ideas that often get refined - all leading to more things.
 
 
 

 
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 TABLES

 
... my work has been informed by the ambiguity between art, design and architecture.
 
 

“My tables provide a visual dialogue that combines and distinguishes between the disciplines of art, design and architecture. The tables are a means to explore the horizontal, planular glass axis within an open frame structure; constructed of the contemporary building materials – steel and glass.”

 

 

 
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OEUVRES

 
 
It is as though he captures and preserves it in the amber of visibility, which he has crafted into a kind of beautiful cage of it.
— Donald Kuspit
 
Patti shows the invisible – sheer absence – in and for itself, as the mystery within the radiantly visible. It is as though he captures and preserves it in the amber of visibility, which he has crafted into a kind of beautiful cage of it… he creates intense sculptural works and relishes the process of transforming his commonplace material (flat glass) into something both tangible and conceptually new by heating and fusing and distorting it. These are not works to be passively admired. Ideally you should hold them in your hand, draw them close to your eyes, and read them as you would a book, scanning the horizontal planes.
— William Warmus
 
 

SCULPTURE

 
If there is one philosophical thought that I have, it’s that the essence of an object - the strength of its soul, isn’t necessarily in the size of an object. But it’s relevance is to the site and the purpose of the maker.
 

 
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I have been inspired by the broad concept of space perception. During my early creative investigations, I used inflatable material as a membrane system to contain and define architectural space. Intended to be realized as housing for the developing world, I was intrigued by the ambiguous and open potential of spatial interiors and the architectural surfaces that contain and describe them.