Studio Job Automobile

Price on request

Unique
2013
Land Rover Defender 90 Aluminium, Bronze, Brass, European Oak, Faience (Ceramic), Swarovski Crystals, Hand Blown Glass, Hand Paintings, Harness Leather, Upholstery, High Gloss Polyurethane Coating, Rubber Polystyrene 160, Satin Lining, Silver Leaf, Stained Glass, Vlisco Wax Printed Fabric, 2K Alkyd Hand Painting, 24K Gold Leaf

Considered a masterpiece of the studio’s production, Automobile summarises the layered facets and eccentric aesthetic of Studio Job. Commissioned by Land Rover for their 65th anniversary, Studio Job added to the storied history of collaboration between car manufacturers and designers, following in the tracks of Marc Newson and Ford, and recently Rose Lovegrove with Renault. Exquisite materials and audacious appendages burst from every corner of the Land Rover, typified by a Swarovski crystal globe on the bonnet and the dome of St Paul’s cathedral protruding from a front wheel.

“This Defender has become everything it could have become. Like a cubist art piece with various perspectives, it is as chaotic and bizarre as life itself. Certainly not a stylistic exercise from the design bible, but definitely a rudimentary work of art, conjured from the high hat – also the controversial palette – of Studio Job. An anti-hero that anticipates itself. A diary and a mirror.” - Job Smeets of Studio Job

Artist Biography

Studio Job is a ground-breaking atelier based in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy and celebrated for its fusion of historical techniques and contemporary themes. Led by Job Smeets, a pioneer of contemporary sculptural art and design, the studio focuses on decorative arts for the contemporary age, producing objects and interiors that exist somewhere between sculptural and functional art.