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Blues in the Night
von • by Martin Reznik

www.martinreznik.com

Something entirely different for a change: To present his furni-

ture designs for the Knoll International and the Desalto brands

in the social media, instead of using simple object photos as is

customary, the British designer Marc Krusin had varied product

illustrations produced. He commissioned the up-and-coming

Polish graphic artist Martin Reznik, who drew several sequences

of a crime noir comic for the campaign. We gladly present you a

selection of these drawings in this edition of AIT. The iconic fur-

niture designs by Krusin are cleverly used to carry an intriguing

story: Whereas the Mini Clay Table (Desalto) serves to store an

abandoned drink as well as a still smoky cigar, a deserted Krusin

Lounge Chair (Knoll) raises a number of criminological ques-

tions: Who had just recently been sitting here? Where and why

may he or she have gone? The next scene – shown on the pages

30/31 – also has a pair of glasses left behind on the dramatically

truncated marble top of the Krusin Side Table by Knoll. Not until

the final scene (p. 48/49) is the classic whodunit mystery derived

from the thriller genre peppered with indications: A lonely man

– a perpetrator? A witness? – lights a revealing cigar in the

shadow of the subtly staged Knoll classic Pixel Y-Leg Table and

the Krusin 016 Chair ... due to the striking imagery and the artis-
tic drawing technique, Krusin’s furniture designs are cleverly set

in the shady milieu of well-known French gangster films. Classics

of the furniture industry here encounter classics of the world of

film and comics. The artist has since received several awards for

this imaginative and unconventional form of product staging,

which can also be purchased in the form of high-quality prints

via Reznik's website.