Ara Thorose is an Armenian-American artist from Los Angeles, currently based in NY. He holds an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. As an undergraduate at University of California Irvine, he studied Sociology with a focus on gender and sexuality.

My work is an investigation of form, with a minimal approach to material and geometry. The objects can be engaged with as furniture, sculpture or both in a personal and emotional way. Uncompromised by the practicality of function, I explore the poetics of form under the constraints of design. I make the work by hand using craft processes developed to cohere various materials to the complex curves of bending cylindrical form.

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In 2021, Thorose was an honoree of Sight Unseen’s American Design Hotlist and received Interior Design Magazine’s award for Rising Star in Design. That year, the 7M Chair was acquired by Cranbrook Art Museum as part of its permanent collection.

Thorose’s first public art work, Torque 01, 02 & 03, is currently in production and will be installed within Royalmount in Montreal spring ‘25..