In a previous iteration, Brooklyn designer Andrew Algier’s “Butterbody” was a 4-foot-tall tower with a sliver of a mirror perched on top. For Offsite Online, Algier converted the design into a charging stand for mobile phones, rendering the piece somehow doubly functional and even more abstract: Situated at chest height and tilted backwards, one can see their reflection in the front-facing camera of a mounted phone. The piece asks viewers reconsider an object’s presence in space, dedicating as it does precious floor space to a task that requires none.

The cell tower includes a charging cable that runs internally through the piece and out the bottom, which can  be matched to either an Apple or Android product.

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