Virgil Abloh Virgil Abloh x Vitra Ceramic Block Orange For Sale

About this work

Virgil Abloh's Ceramic Block Orange, created in collaboration with Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra in 2019, exemplifies the designer's ongoing investigation into the boundaries between functional object and sculptural form. The work presents a deceptively simple geometric form—a rectangular ceramic block rendered in a vivid, saturated orange that immediately commands attention. The piece carries the deliberate weight of industrial design while simultaneously rejecting pure utility, existing instead as a meditation on the building blocks of creative practice. The collaboration with Vitra proved significant for Abloh, allowing him to extend his deconstructive methodology beyond fashion into the realm of domestic objects. The ceramic block references both the literal foundations of architecture and the conceptual foundations of design itself, stripped to its most essential form. The choice of orange speaks to Abloh's fluency in street culture and contemporary visual language—a color associated with caution signs, construction zones, and urban infrastructure, yet here elevated to the pristine context of collectible design. This work embodies Abloh's philosophy of the "three percent approach," his belief that altering an existing idea by just three percent creates something entirely new. The ceramic block is at once familiar and estranged, a quotidian shape transformed through material, color, and context into an object worthy of contemplation. It sits comfortably within Abloh's broader practice of democratizing design discourse, making conceptual art accessible while maintaining intellectual rigor. For inquiries regarding the acquisition of this work by Virgil Abloh, please contact Guy Hepner.