A life size clamshell chair that looks like a pink and purple blush compact with a mirror that says “you make me blush.”

Adrenaline Blush

Adrenaline Blush

DIMENSIONS: 36(h) x 36(w) x 36(d)
MEDIUM: Custom Makeup Compact Sculpture; One of a Kind
YEAR: 2022

Simmons had the desire to create something realistic from which fantasy could grow. The interpretation of objects like a life-sized makeup compact occupy a balance between reality and fantasy with its simplified geometric architecture, while simultaneously emulating an uncanny, dreamlike state.

Packed with youthful spirit, Simmons’ “Adrenaline Blush” compact chair blends a highbrow sense of humor and irony with colorful, contemporary style, resulting in a piece that is expertly crafted without taking itself too seriously.

An artists rendering of a clamshell chair that looks like a blush compact.
Hexagonal lifesize wooden chair in carpenter's shop designed to look like a makeup compact.
Lifesize clamshell makeup compact chair with pink and purple blush seats at Bergdorf Goodman.
Octagonal wooden art piece in carpenter's shop.
Lifesize chair shaped like a blush compact with a blue and purple fabric seat at Bergdorf Goodman department store.
Kristin Simmons and woman sitting on lifesize chair shaped like a blush compact at her exhibition at Bergdorf Goodman.
A hexagonal wooden base designed to look like a blush compact being made in a carpenter's shop.
Wooden hexagonal artpiece shaped like a lifesized blush compact in a carpenter's shop.
Preliminary colored sketch rendering of a lifesize chair shaped like a blush compact by artist Kristin Simmons.