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Lightweight aluminum meets matte powder coat in an array of playful colors. This Tube Collection is perfect for gathering around for a couples-only moonlit dinner, solo garden lunch, and everything in between. Uhuru partnered with Detroit-based Floyd Home, dedicated to making streamlined, modern classics to bring the Tube Collection into many homes, backyards, and outdoors.
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Top six photos courtesy of Floyd
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Uhuru's partnership with Shake Shack began with developing a single chair. Since that eventful collaboration, Uhuru has concepted, designed, and built an exclusive line of tables, chairs, and banquettes for the quickly expanding, NY-based burger & fries joint. Today, Uhuru's designs are featured in all of Shake Shack's US locations, and globally, from Abu Dhabi to Tokyo.
For Shake Shack's NYC Fulton Center location, Shake Shack contracted Uhuru to concept and produce their furniture for their new lower Manhattan restaurant. The project included a complete interiors package with custom furniture and unique 'split rail' lighting fixtures. The 4,000 square foot space in the transit hub's 2nd floor roundabout was reimagined with sustainable hardwood detailing, elegant lighting, and a minimal geometrical layout that reflects the angular walls of the architecture.
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Together with NY-based streetwear lifestyle brand Alife, Jason and Uhuru designed “Private Property”, a capsule collection that presented vandalism as works of art.
Private Property brings together "high-end sustainable furniture design and downtown New York graffiti culture" with graffiti artists such as EARSNOT, SEMEN and JIM JOE. Uhuru is a contemporary furniture manufacturer so the works feature unique furniture displays fused with the idea of vandalism. The result is the Alife x Uhuru Private Property exhibition that demonstrates how defacing property can give a unique design to traditional works. Debuted at NY Design Week 2011 at The HOLE Gallery, NYC.
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Co-design, manufacturing
In collaboration with Parisian designer Constance Guisset, Uhuru Design developed the Alca collection for the Transatlantic Creative Exchange that showcased at Wanted Design 2017. The four piece collection is an intercontinental mash-up of Uhuru's Brooklyn aesthetic and Constance’s elegant Parisian forms. The pieces featured charred-edge slab walnut and cast iron bases, pairing an organic sensibility with thoughtfully selected materials.
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