Felipe Pantone and Etai Bring Their ‘Parallel Practices’ to Albertz Benda This Summer
A landmark exhibition and collaboration uniting tailored structures with kinetic surfaces.
Summary
- Albertz Benda Los Angeles hosts a joint exhibition by Felipe Pantone and Etai from July 17 to August 8, 2026
- Mid-century furniture is digitally remapped and upholstered with custom Limonta fabrics
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 presentation will be hosted within the distinct domestic architecture of the gallery’s Los Angeles location, which is housed in a mid-century modern home. Rather than treating the pieces as standalone objects, the exhibition arranges Pantone’s wall-based artworks and their collaborative furniture pieces into an interconnected artistic system that explores questions of utility, intimacy and contemporary lived experience.
The exhibition debuts a new body of collaborative design pieces centered on a rigorous process of structural dialogue, material deconstruction, and reconstruction. 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 then designed custom, high-concept fabric elements produced by the historic Italian textile house Limonta. These vibrant textiles were systematically integrated into the furniture, blending contemporary imagery and digital visual languages with classic structural forms while preserving the original functional logic of each object.
Functioning as both conceptual accelerators and visual anchors, Pantone’s signature wall-based kinetic artworks are displayed in direct dialogue with the furniture. These pieces utilize optical effects driven by rhythm, velocity and repetition to mirror modern systems of digital circulation and data flow, establishing a chromatic vocabulary that carries directly into the printed fabrics used throughout the space.
Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces opens on July 17 and will run until August 8, 2026 at Albertz Benda’s Los Angeles gallery space.
Albertz Benda L.A.
8260 Marmont Lane, Los Angeles,
CA 90069, USA
