{"product_id":"high-school-lover-bench-by-sashaxsasha-and-apollinaria-broche","title":"High School Lover Bench by Sashaxsasha and Apollinaria Broche","description":"High School Lover is a new take on the studio’s classic SSB01 bench. In place of\nMDF, this piece is crafted from solid oak because of its weight, warmth, and sense\nof permanence.\nThe key inspiration behind the piece is a school desk—an object that keeps the\nmemories and marks of those who used it. The name High School Lover is a nod\nto Coppola’s music video for Playground Love by Air, where a piece of chewing\ngum becomes the unexpected protagonist, journeying through various scenes and\neven performing the song.\nsashaxsahsa worked in collaboration with their friend and artist Apollinaria Broche\nto add their version of living chewing gums to the bench. Apollinaria pierced the\nbench with hand-sculpted aluminium details—each piece an imprint of teenage\npast time. Some elements resemble stickers reminding of how we used to cover\ndesks and notebooks with them, while a cast of a toy snake recalls the prank of\nhiding one inside a desk to startle teachers.\nTrue to its high school spirit, the piece didn’t stay pristine for long. sashaxsasha,\nApollinaria and two of their friends went to spend a weekend in Normandy, where\nthey engraved the bench’s surface, much like a school desk gets filled with notes\nand scribbles over time.\nSchool is where we ask our first big questions, feel things with unfiltered intensity,\nand become, briefly, our truest selves. High School Lover invites us back to that\nfleeting sense of mischief, discovery, and the thrill of getting away with something.","brand":"sashaxsasha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57063295254793,"sku":null,"price":17777.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/5290\/4457\/files\/w8mld5qedv0awct8hkbe.jpg?v=1778931729","url":"https:\/\/oblist.com\/products\/high-school-lover-bench-by-sashaxsasha-and-apollinaria-broche","provider":"The Oblist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}