Nikolai and Simon Haas, grown up in Austin, Texas, but formed in Los Angeles, do not have a traditional artistic training. They started with music in the Vincent Gallo’s band Rriiccee, specialising in experimental noise. Their debut speaks volumes about their unconventional attitudes. Playing in a bizarre band, without possessing any particular musical talent, helped eliminate any form of inhibition in the two brothers. Abandoning experimental noise, they decided to start making furniture, creating their own brand. In a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, they began to give shape to their universe of objects, ignoring both functionality and any theoretical obligation to modernism, in order to make their creations ironic and sexy, qualities usually neglected by design.
From this irreverence towards discipline comes an imaginative zoomorphic repertoire, consisting of improbable pieces, often lined with fur, hand-made, with extreme attention to detail.