Spotted at ICFF, this intriguing line of upholstered chairs by Brooklyn-based company New Colony Furniture, transform hard materials into soft surfaces.

New Colony Furniture uses traditional upholstery techniques on unconventional upholstery materials.

Annie Evelyn, founder of New Colony Furniture, began experimenting with concrete upholstery in graduate school and expanded to other hard materials like wood metal and even crystals when she received a Windgate Grant for furniture in 2011.

Now, working with wood, concrete, metal, and crystals, New Colony Furniture presents a whole series of soft/hard upholstered chairs that will be on display at ICFF, booth 2462 until Tuesday.

For more information visit www.newcolonyfurniture.com

About the designer: Founded by Annie Evelyn in 2012, New Colony Furniture is a Brooklyn based company. Annie studied furniture design at the Rhode Island School of design and since then she has been making furniture, working as a professional upholsterer, set decorating for Beasts of the Southern Wild and teaching at RISD, IUP, Anderson Ranch and Penland.