Bend Goods

Bend Goods was founded in Los Angeles in 2010 by Gaurav Nanda, a sculptor and visual designer who had worked as an automotive sculptor at General Motors. The studio applies that training to wire and aluminium-tube furniture — chairs, stools, tables, benches and planters — bending and welding every piece by hand to tolerances borrowed from car manufacturing.

Powder coating gives the frames their colour and durability, and each piece is tested for indoor and outdoor use, with a curated palette of finishes and COM options for restaurant, hospitality and contract projects. The Lucy Chair, a wire-work icon, earned a place in the permanent collection of LACMA, and the studio’s pieces appear in John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein Residence.