VIRTUAL FURNITURE

Virtual furniture, does it really exist? Argentine designer Andrés Reisinger sold his digital creations via

Virtual furniture, does it really exist? Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger sold his digital life works via an online auction for half a million dollars. His creations are mind blowing.Text: Larissa Schaule Jullens
Image: Andrés Reisinger

Virtual 3D spaces

Reisinger has been designing the virtual furniture. Recently he made ten digital copies and within ten minutes his collection was sold out. What did it achieve? More than half a million euros! On the online marketplace Nifty Gateway saw a rush once the designer put his items online. The furniture, which varies from a spherical soft pink table to a tubular armchair, can be placed in virtual 3Dspaces or in games like Minecraft. Each piece can also be used in virtual and augmented reality apps.

Impossible objects

Reisinger calls his creations 'impossible objects', but some of his 'furniture' is also recreated in real life. According to him, the demand was so great that he also wanted to make real items. It is not the first time that the virtual designs of the designer appear on the market. In 2018 he set the internet on fire with his version of The Hortensia: a plush pink chair wrapped in 20.000 fabric petals. The object was so popular that he decided to create a physical version, which was eventually exhibited at the Montoya Gallery in Barcelona.

Luxury fashion houses

Reisinger's digital furniture also breaks the mold luxury fashion houses more and more. Gucci, Valentino and Marc Jabos have even started creating virtual garments so that gamers can wear their 'dolls' in expensive designer clothesg can dress.