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About Robert Stadler


Born in Austria and based in Paris, furniture designer Robert Stadler creates surrealistic, often strangely proportioned pieces. A quilted mass of bright colored material makes up a living room set—sofa, chairs, coffee table—and the biomorphic, plasma-like bulges appear as through they’re slowly melting. A table, made of stacked biomorphic disks, looks at first arbitrarily piled, but in fact it’s ergonomically designed and created to cast particular shadows. “I enjoy revealing the strange sides to an object and making people love them,” Stadler says. “We easily reject the bizarre as it seems established that functional objects should be simple, self-explanatory, attractive, etc. So I try to add a different dimension to my works, but without neglecting these rational parameters.”

Austrian, b. 1966, Vienna, Austria


Carpenters Workshop Gallery,
Robert Stadler: Airspace


Noguchi Museum,
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum
Just What Is It, Part I


Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Design Miami/ Basel 2016
Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Design Miami/ Basel 2015
gdm at Art Brussels 2015
gdm at Art Brussels 2014
Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Design Miami/ 2012
gdm at Art Basel 2011
Go to Robert Stadler’s Artist Page
Robert Stadler
Ardoise N°8, 2011
MDF wood, slate peint
15 7/10 × 11 4/5 in
40 × 30 cm
Edition of 12 copies, certificate numbered and signed


gdm, Paris

