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For Gucci SS27, SUB GLOBAL invited RAWORKSHOP to contribute objects to Prototype, a proposition for the house’s future retail spaces under Demna.

Included: Double Negative Vessel, KK Box, Slit Tissue Box, Gleba Urns.

Commissioned: Sconce 01, cast amber rubber.

A prototype for a store, furnished with objects that have already been around the block.

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Creative direction: @demna / @gucci
Architecture and spatial design: @sub.global / @niklas.bildstein.zaar
Objects and lighting: @r.a.workshop
Photography: @stemattea taken in Gucci by @r.a.workshop

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@richaybar is a Dominican-American sculptor and furniture designer. After working at Hood by Air, he founded @r.a.workshop in 2019.

Known for his iconic use of rubber, Aybar’s work fuses subversive design language with wit and playfulness. His sculptural furniture transforms everyday objects into tactile, provocative forms that invite both curiosity and interaction.

Swipe to discover the collection, now available at STUDIO-IRON.COM by @r.a.workshop

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NIGHTBLOCKS — WALKS I–VIII
translucent polyurethane rubber and lighting components. Deposit, NY — March 2025

This series reflects on the emotional function of nightlights: objects used to negotiate darkness — often in childhood, here made obstructive and monumental.

Eight one-of-one nightlights, each cast individually around a functioning plug unit.

Each work is titled as a WALK — a low continuous light for moving through darkness.

The four proportions follow a halving logic; each size a compression of the last.

Cast by hand, one at a time. No two resolve the same way inside.

Light is not emitted from a point but held within mass. What reaches you has traveled through rubber — diffused, slowed, and altered in the process.

@thefutureperfect @duddhaus by @r.a.workshop

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We rising!
Thank you @elledecor — truly honored to be included.
Special thanks to @cristobalita and @elk_elisa ✨ by @r.a.workshop

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IDIORHYTHMS
Trough April 19, 2026 COUR Groenplaats 42, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium 1st Floor _____________________________________
The exhibition Idiorhythms assembles four artistic practices whose core could be described as ‘elemental’. Each leverages the unique properties of a chosen material to achieve a kind of tactile virtuosity. Each also eschews industrial production in favour of artistic autonomy and skill, the bedrock of a highly individual style.
The term ‘idiorrhythmia’ originally referred to a ‘self-regulated’ form of monastic life, in which monks lived side by side but followed their own internal schedules in work and worship. In places like Mount Athos, where idiorrhythmic monasticism endures, the texture of monastic life is thus neither communal nor entirely solitary. It is a fantasy of coexistence without synchronisation, of living together apart (à la Roland Barthes).
In the realm of artistic production, rhythm has a trifold meaning: it could say something about the personal routines, rituals, and research methods accumulated throughout an artist’s career; it could indicate a frequency or mode of engagement with the commercial circuit, a certain relationship to showing work, between poles of exposure and productive silence; or it could bear on the material itself – the bulk and grain of wood planks in dynamic juxtaposition, fur patterns hand-stitched onto cloth, the waning translucence of urethane rubber, the chilled lustre of black steel.
The exhibition does not calibrate or harness these rhythmic signatures. It draws attention to the luxuriant tone of their entanglement and resonance, and to the straightforward poetry of the objects that convey them.  _____________________________________
WITH WORKS BY:
Rich Aybar, Grace Atkinson, Lewis Kemmenoe, Noir Métal taken in Antwerp, Belgium by @r.a.workshop

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SCRAPE 2026
Balance as structure.
Light as force.
A suspended system, on the edge of motion. Photos by @ange_jules taken in Antwerp, Belgium by @r.a.workshop

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IDIORHYTHMS
Trough April 19, 2026 COUR Groenplaats 42, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium 1st Floor _____________________________________
The exhibition Idiorhythms assembles four artistic practices whose core could be described as ‘elemental’. Each leverages the unique properties of a chosen material to achieve a kind of tactile virtuosity. Each also eschews industrial production in favour of artistic autonomy and skill, the bedrock of a highly individual style.
The term ‘idiorrhythmia’ originally referred to a ‘self-regulated’ form of monastic life, in which monks lived side by side but followed their own internal schedules in work and worship. In places like Mount Athos, where idiorrhythmic monasticism endures, the texture of monastic life is thus neither communal nor entirely solitary. It is a fantasy of coexistence without synchronisation, of living together apart (à la Roland Barthes).
In the realm of artistic production, rhythm has a trifold meaning: it could say something about the personal routines, rituals, and research methods accumulated throughout an artist’s career; it could indicate a frequency or mode of engagement with the commercial circuit, a certain relationship to showing work, between poles of exposure and productive silence; or it could bear on the material itself – the bulk and grain of wood planks in dynamic juxtaposition, fur patterns hand-stitched onto cloth, the waning translucence of urethane rubber, the chilled lustre of black steel.
The exhibition does not calibrate or harness these rhythmic signatures. It draws attention to the luxuriant tone of their entanglement and resonance, and to the straightforward poetry of the objects that convey them.  _____________________________________
WITH WORKS BY:
Rich Aybar, Grace Atkinson, Lewis Kemmenoe photo by @ange_jules by @r.a.workshop

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APSIS RUBBER TABLE, 2025

I was thinking about skateparks — about the architecture of reclaimed space, the way a curb or a drained pool becomes a playground. How you can coax joy out of what is considered derelict. The pool is empty, but this table is brimming. I kept circling back to that moment when water sits right at the edge, tense but calm, like it might spill but it doesn’t.

16.25 W × 16.25 D × 9.5 H in 48lbs
41W× 41D ×24Hcm 21.8kg

Available to order at
WWW.RAWORKSHOP.ORG by @r.a.workshop

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Honored to have a few of my pieces woven into the dinner tableau at last week’s Jean Royère dinner. Grateful to be in such esteemed company, and always glad to join forces with such a venerable house. Here’s to future crossings. Special thanks to @jonathan.d.wray by @r.a.workshop

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Branding for R.A. Workshop (@r.a.workshop) — creative studio founded by Rich Aybar producing sculptural furniture and objects that blend organic textures with industrial processes. by @r.a.workshop

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RUBBERWORKS 2025
@Tiwa_select

Detail shots by:

@zood_bored
@andybaraghani
@tarabanski
@jasperpope by @r.a.workshop

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Installation view of RUBBERWORKS

RUBBERWORKS, a solo exhibition is on view through October 8, 2025.

Featuring over twenty five sculptural lighting and furniture pieces (continuing an ongoing exploration with polyurethane and natural Amazonian rubber as well as found materials such American chestnut cold-rolled steel.)

TIWA Gallery
86 Walker Street, 5th floor
New York City by @r.a.workshop

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