Critical Apparatus
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Jeremy Anderson and Gabriel Hendifar of Apparatus in their studio.
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In Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson’s Apparatus Studio, vintage finds form a backdrop for the company's signature lighting and accessories. Here, the Arrow and Cloud chandeliers interact with an Eero Aarnio wicker sofa, Italian travertine cocktail tables picked up in Hudson, New York, and a pair of 1970s dining chairs reworked with brass plating and black calfskin.
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Hendifar and Anderson found this French campaign bench in Morocco, upholstered with a hair-on hide. “It’s this refined thing meets Fred Flintstone,” Hendifar says. Clients liked it so much that Apparatus has sourced similar French campaign cots for clients. Their linear Highwire fixture hangs to the left.
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Apparatus came across wood vessels from the Kenyan Turkana tribe through a dealer several years ago. Now they source the humble pieces in bulk for their Bowl sconces. The étagère is flanked by Apparatus’s Dyad sconces, fitted with brass and porcelain.
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Hendifar supposes these Lucite-and-leather chairs are 1970s Italian. When they were originally purchased, the Lucite was damaged so they tracked down a local plastics engineer who could create the same difficult-to-produce bent form in order to restore the original. The chairs gather round a Henry dining table by Egg Collective, shown with Apparatus’s Synapse pendant and geometric Buddies sconces.
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Apparatus’s balloonlike Cloud chandelier hangs over a marble work table with vintage geometric stools.
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"We found a pair of these chairs in Hudson and thought they would make perfect desk chairs for the studio,” Hendifar says. “After our desks came in, we found that they were just a couple inches too short to be comfortable, so we made brass fittings to prop up the legs. Now I can't imagine the chairs without the brass.”
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Apparatus’s new accessories collection includes a ceramic tea set, brass candlesticks, and censer. “It’s all a soft reference to geometry,” Hendifar says. “But it’s geometry with a human hand.”