The normally quotidian objects that emerge from Snarkitecture’s Brooklyn studio are always slightly amiss in one way or another. There’s the off-kilter slant of their coasters and lighting, and then there’s the recurring motif of jagged, broken surfaces that appears throughout their furniture and holiday décor (even the coveted statuette they designed for the A+ Awards). The latest variation on this roughly textured theme is the sweetest yet: Break Bar, a limited-edition, Maya Mountain cacao-bean bar incised with a continuous fracture around its perimeter. Split it open to find two craggy landscapes reminiscent of Snarkitecture’s previous works, or the floor of an excavation site, or the inside of a Crunch bar. “On a functional level, we explore an intersection between architectural precision and the irrational or illogical,” says Alex Mustonen, who with Daniel Arsham co-founded the Snarkitecture studio, which means digging into clean-cut geometric forms to create less pristine surfaces. Although the two typically work in weightier materials — plaster, wood, cultured marble — chocolate seems to be a fitting medium for the duo’s formal investigations. “You break pieces off as you’re using it,” Mustonen tells us. Break Bar, produced in collaboration with Dandelion Chocolate and Cool Hunting, is available ...
The normally quotidian objects that emerge from Snarkitecture’s Brooklyn studio are always slightly amiss in one way or another. There’s the off-kilter slant of their coasters and lighting, and then there’s the recurring motif of jagged, broken surfaces that appears throughout their furniture and holiday décor (even the coveted statuette they designed for the A+ Awards). The latest variation on this roughly textured theme is the sweetest yet: Break Bar, a limited-edition, Maya Mountain cacao-bean bar incised with a continuous fracture around its perimeter. Split it open to find two craggy landscapes reminiscent of Snarkitecture’s previous works, or the floor of an excavation site, or the inside of a Crunch bar. “On a functional level, we explore an intersection between architectural precision and the irrational or illogical,” says Alex Mustonen, who with Daniel Arsham co-founded the Snarkitecture studio, which means digging into clean-cut geometric forms to create less pristine surfaces. Although the two typically work in weightier materials — plaster, wood, cultured marble — chocolate seems to be a fitting medium for the duo’s formal investigations. “You break pieces off as you’re using it,” Mustonen tells us. Break Bar, produced in collaboration with Dandelion Chocolate and Cool Hunting, is available ...