Slash Objects is a design studio based between New York and Paris, founded in 2016 by architect and designer Arielle Assouline-Lichten. The studio sits at the intersection of architecture, furniture, and material innovation, creating collectible and made-to-order works that merge precision and emotion.

Rooted in a fascination with materiality, the studio explores how contrasting elements—natural and industrial, soft and structural—meet and transform. Each piece begins in the material, revealing the tactile nature of making while achieving clarity through geometry and form.

Slash Objects celebrates the inherent beauty of materials, treating them as the earth’s jewels: raw, refined, and shaped with intent. From stainless steel and onyx to recycled rubber, every composition is designed to endure, embodying both permanence and possibility. The studio approaches furniture as both expression and spatial act, and its work reflects a belief that design is a living dialogue between craft and concept, art and architecture, people and their environments.

The studio’s first permanent showroom, located in SoHo, New York, serves as both an exhibition space and a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration across design, music, art, and fashion.
Slash Objects’ work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, Vogue, The New York Times, Elle Decor, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others, and the studio has collaborated with brands including Cartier, Nike, BMW, Hyatt, The Ritz-Carlton, SSENSE, and Holt Renfrew.

Arielle Assouline-Lichten is an architect, artist, and multidisciplinary designer based between Paris and New York. She is the founder of Slash Objects and Slash Projects, a design studio working at the intersection of architecture, furniture, and material innovation.

Her work investigates materiality, ephemerality, and the tension between the natural and the man-made, creating minimalist forms that elevate overlooked materials. Through tactile, reductive design, she examines humanity’s impulse to mark time through objects and the modernist pursuit of simplicity as it evolves.

Arielle holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Critical Theory and Visual Media from New York University. She has worked with leading international firms, including BIG, Kengo Kuma & Associates, and Snøhetta, across Copenhagen, Paris, Tokyo, and New York.

She was a Principal of OfficeUS at the Venice Biennale, part of the curatorial team for the U.S. Pavilion, and initiated the viral petition for the retroactive recognition of Denise Scott Brown by the Pritzker Prize, featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Metropolis, and Architectural Digest.

In 2021, she was a finalist on HBO Max’s Ellen’s Next Great Designer. Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognized with honors, including the American Design Hotlist, Best of NYCxDesign, American Design Honors, and The New York Times Best of Design.