Ben Kicic is a New York-based designer with a strong passion for research and innovation. His work revolves around the belief that design is an activity focused on simplicity, attention to detail, liveability and practicality: for this reason, he creates furniture and furnishings that establish a dialogue between functionality, art, culture and the history of materials.

At first glance, Tavolo and Sedia appear as exercises of clarity – pure, steady forms built on repetition and balance. Their construction is direct: Tavolo, composed of three interlocking oak elements, and Sedia, assembled through joinery, rely on structure and simplicity rather than excess. There is no ornament, only the quiet logic of their curves. And yet, embedded in their simplicity is an underlying fragility—not of material failure, but because of the push and pull between useful objects and deeper narrative within them.

Tavolo and Sedia engage in the act of recomposition and memory. Their construction is an assembly of fragments, wood carefully selected from different boards, different whole trees cut, milled, kiln dried, cut, and joined with precision.

Text by Ben Kicic

The method of joinery speaks to tradition, a technique that recalls years of training and craftsmanship – while the design itself is contemporary, rooted in the now. These pieces do not break in the literal sense, but in their evolution they are fragile, because they hold so much. They carry with them the history of the material, from a sapling in the forest to the hands that shaped them, and the spaces they will inhabit. They are not just objects; they are the sum of gestures, of growth and assembly, of time unfolding across their surfaces.