ABOUT

Alek Keller is a French author of furniture, objects, and spaces, living and working in the United States.
His practice spans furniture and sculpture, with interiors, landscapes, and public works approached as extensions of the same material thinking.

Working primarily with clay, wood, metal, stone, and plaster, Keller designs objects intended for daily use. Forms are reduced and often monolithic, shaped by proportion, construction, and material behavior rather than surface effect. Meaning is allowed to emerge through time, wear, and repeated interaction.

Alongside his design work, Keller maintains an independent writing practice focused on philosophy and contemporary culture. His texts do not function as explanations of the objects, but as parallel inquiries into modern life, power, value, and perception. Film operates in a similar register, extending these questions through image and sequence.

Across disciplines, his work is informed by a modernist lineage attentive to restraint, continuity, and the endurance of form.

Alek Keller at home. Photograph by Christopher Zarcadoolas.