David Stark Creates 'Art-Meets-Housewares' for West Elm Store Opening

Perhaps you’ve furnished your home with pieces from the west elm catalog, but what about furnishing your home with the west elm catalog itself? That was the thought of event designer David Stark when west elm asked him to work his magic to celebrate the opening of the brand’s sprawling new emporium on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Stark and his team transformed hundreds of west elm catalogs and mountains of the store’s packing materials into sculptural objects ranging from lamps and clocks to laser-cut cardboard cacti and a shredded catalog armchair that gives the