In a workshop near the Greenpoint waterfront in Brooklyn, New York, Christopher Williams, Charles Constantine, and Drew Seskunas are tinkering with a fog machine, a tub of ice, and a plastic-walled room—a mock-up of their latest architectural installation. Williams flicks a switch, and a heavy mist hisses in, swirling around a series of colored LEDs. "This is a very early stage of it," explains Seskunas. "It's like a little lab."
Such experiments are essential to the way Williams, Constantine, and Seskunas—a master craftsman, an industrial designer, and an architect—work. As cofounders of the firm the Principals, their combined skills and DIY ethos result in environments and objects that challenge expectations of traditional design: walls that seem alive, materials that defy their intended use.
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