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CHRISTOPHER PRINZ is as a pioneering designer based in Omaha. Driven by a quest to unveil the extraordinary potential hidden within manufacturing materials, Prinz’s artistic journey revolves around harnessing the rarely-explored extremes of his materials, pushing the boundaries of creativity and functionality.

Prinz’s distinctive technique involves employing a repetitive, large-scale steel creasing method, coupled with unique combinations of electro-plated metals to impart a transformative quality to his works. Through this process, once-muted industrial materials are imbued with a terrain-like texture, infusing them with a newfound expressiveness.

A graduate of the esteemed Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design in 2014, Prinz brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his craft. His innovative approach has garnered attention within the design community, offering fresh perspectives on materiality and form and leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of contemporary design. 

If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make. 

Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.