{"title":"RA Workshop","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRichard Aybar is a New York–born sculptor and collectible design artist of Dominican heritage and the founder of RAWORKSHOP. His work centers on rubber, most often polyurethane — a petroleum-derived material through which he develops sculptural furniture, lighting, and vessels whose forms oscillate between utilitarian object and contemporary artifact.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"crescent-covered-bench","title":"Crescent Coved Bench","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Crescent Cove Bench is cast by hand in \u003cspan\u003etranslucent, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamber-coloured, \u003c\/span\u003epolyurethane and Amazonian rubber. The bench is distinguished by its draped, elementary form that subverts traditional design canons and challenges how users interact with synthetic, organic-feeling objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RA Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56696462737794,"sku":null,"price":6740.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/2301\/6066\/files\/CRESCENTCOVELOVESEAT.png?v=1780919850"},{"product_id":"rim-stool","title":"Rim Stooge","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Rim Stooge is a striking, industrial-style functional piece, recognised by its hefty, carefully sculpted, and raw silhouette. \u003cspan class=\"yADgie\"\u003eMade from cast rubber, it is \u003c\/span\u003esolid, tactile and highly distinctive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RA Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56696774459778,"sku":null,"price":3460.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/2301\/6066\/files\/RIMSTOOGE_202338cmtall.Shortqueeningstool.Hefty_sculpted_industrialseatwhichprovid.jpg?v=1780927454"},{"product_id":"sounding-lamp-2","title":"Sounding Lamp 2","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSounding Lamps are striking, sculptural, and functional art objects hand-cast from translucent polyurethane rubber. 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These distinctive pieces play with tactility, material history, and the way light travels through mass. 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It pushes the boundaries of functional design and highlights rubber’s unique tactile properties. \u003cspan\u003eThe curved fiberglass resin arms are interchangeable. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RA Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56696999182722,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/2301\/6066\/files\/MECEDORMOGOLLON_2019.Bouncyrubberrockingchairwithcurvedfiberglassresinarms.Armsare.jpg?v=1780934087"},{"product_id":"scape-pendant","title":"Scrape Pendant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA suspended dual-form light sculpture in which two illuminated rubber volumes counterweight one another as a single kinetic system.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RA Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56697075630466,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/2301\/6066\/files\/SCRAPE_Pendant_by_Rich_Aybar2026Cast_translucent_polyurethane_rubber_integrated_LED_rusted_ste_5.jpg?v=1780934594"},{"product_id":"open-ended-chat-table","title":"Open-ended chat table","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003eThe Chat Table is an extraordinary, larger-scale design exploration by Rich Aybar that captures everything his studio stands for: subversive materiality, physical intimacy, and experimental production. Bathed in his iconic honey-toned amber palette, the table looks completely inviting and edible—the designer himself has likened the aesthetic to giant, juicy pieces of candy. Aybar created this piece to push back against the standard, clinical materials traditionally used for translucency in design, such as rigid resin, acrylic, or glass. Because it is solid rubber, the Chat Table feels completely different to the touch; it is entirely seamless, possesses an elasticity when touched, and has a distinct flesh-like bounce back. When placed in a room, the Chat Table behaves like a light installation as much as a surface—the dense rubber catches, filters, and diffuses natural sunlight, causing the entire table to emit a warm, fleshy, and atmospheric glow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RA Workshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56717795164546,"sku":null,"price":14975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/2301\/6066\/files\/MyFirstWeavy_Gemini3_NanoBananaPro__2026-06-19_11-47-20copy2.png?v=1781870113"},{"product_id":"double-negative-vessel","title":"Double Negative Vessel","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"\u003eWhile most vessels are ceramic, glass, or stone, the Double Negative is hand-cast in Aybar's signature polyurethane rubber. By utilizing a material traditionally reserved for flexible industrial components, Aybar completely reimagines the ‘vase’. Instead of a rigid, fragile object that could crack or shatter, the vessel is dense, highly tactile, slightly pliable, and possesses a completely unexpected weight and ‘give’ to the touch. By naming it the \u003ci\u003eDouble Negative\u003c\/i\u003e, Aybar plays with the concept of voids, inversion, and structural absence. The vessel is designed to look like a tool or an internal component that has been pulled inside out. 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