Extainer — Objects as Open Structures

Anton Edelshtein is a Tel Aviv–based designer and researcher whose practice unfolds at the intersection of object design and immersive spatial experience. Grounded in a rhizomatic methodology (Deleuze and Guattari), his work approaches the object not as a fixed form but as an open, dynamic system charged by context. By deconstructing familiar artefacts and engaging with their peripheral and “negative” spaces, Edelshtein creates conditions for the emergence of relational and affective interactions that challenge conventional notions of function and context.

About the Project

Edelshtein’s design practice conceives the object as a process of openness rather than a completed form. Within his Master’s research, he elaborated a rhizomatic methodology that rejects linear models in favour of non-hierarchical and networked processes. The Extainer series embodies this approach: familiar typologies — stool, hanger, candleholder — are transformed into open structures of potential. Function is displaced to the periphery, while gestures, relations, and meanings come to the fore in the interval between body, material, and context.