Felipe Pantone and Etai Turn Furniture Into Kinetic Art

Felipe Pantone and Los Angeles designer Etai Drori have joined forces for Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces, their first exhibition together, now on view at albertz benda’s Los Angeles gallery.

Installed inside the gallery’s mid-century modern home, the presentation brings Pantone’s kinetic wall works into conversation with a new series of collaborative furniture pieces. Rather than blending their practices into a single style, the project allows each artist’s methods to remain visible, connecting Pantone’s graphic systems with Etai’s interest in deconstruction, tailoring and material craft.

The collaboration began with vintage mid-century furniture sourced across Los Angeles. Etai digitally mapped, dismantled and rebuilt each object, while Pantone created custom fabrics produced by Italian textile house Limonta. His gradients, geometric patterns and optical effects move from the wall onto upholstered surfaces, giving familiar design forms a new visual charge without fully erasing their original structure.

Pantone’s artworks act as anchors throughout the exhibition. Built around repetition, color and the sensation of movement, they reflect his wider interest in how images circulate across screens and physical space. Those same chromatic systems extend across the furniture, turning the gallery into a connected environment rather than a collection of separate works across the gallery’s domestic setting in Los Angeles.

Together, the artists treat collaboration as an ongoing exchange between image-making, fashion, craft and functional design, while exploring how artwork can be encountered, used and lived with.

Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces is on view through August 8, 2026.