"Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut, has marked its tenth anniversary with a new collection of installations and programming in and around SANAA's iconic, serpentine River Building. Designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the glass-and-steel structure drifts across an 80-acre landscape of meadows and woodlands, its continuous roofline following the contours of the site like a line drawn in light. A decade on, the building feels increasingly absorbed into its setting, the distinctions between constructed and natural softened by time, weather, and use."
"Visitors to Grace Farms are now invited to sit amongst an installation of Dancing Trees, a series of six sculptural benches by SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima, crafted from locally sourced Connecticut black cherry. Each piece retains the gentle irregularities of the trees they were shaped from, with minimal intervention beyond the addition of slender legs. Arranged in the Plaza, they suggest informal gathering, a continuity of the River Building's flowing social spaces in solid wood."
"Sejima described the work as 'figures dancing together,' each with a different posture yet moving in quiet relation to one another."
Grace Farms' River Building curves across an 80-acre landscape of meadows and woodlands with a continuous roofline that follows the site's contours. The glass-and-steel structure increasingly blends into its setting, softening distinctions between constructed and natural elements through time, weather, and use. A tenth-anniversary program introduced new architectural and artistic commissions including a new rooftop fascia and SANAA-designed benches. Six sculptural benches called Dancing Trees were crafted from locally sourced Connecticut black cherry, retaining natural irregularities and fitted with slender legs. The benches are arranged in the Plaza to encourage informal gathering and extend the building's flowing social spaces into solid wood.
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