CALIPER BUILDS CUSTOM DRAFTING TABLE FOR DANIEL ARSHAM

Daniel Arsham just got a $50,000 drafting table from Madrid, and it tells you everything about where artist infrastructure is headed. Caliper, a Spanish industrial design studio, engineered a custom workspace for Arsham's NYC studio. Backlit surface. Integrated magnifying lamps. Surface-mounted charging ports. This is not furniture. This is a tool built for a specific hand, a specific practice, a specific vision. Here is what matters: Arsham's work lives in the space between drawing and sculpture. He calls it "fictional archaeology." He casts eroded versions of modern objects using sand, selenite, volcanic ash. The drawings come first. Small studies on paper. Charcoal. Graphite. Intimate work that becomes the blueprint for monumental installations. The table had to match that precision. Caliper used CNC machining on aluminum, clear anodizing, bead-blasting. The storage was custom too. Compartments for paper stock, charcoal sticks, graphite pencils. Every detail engineered for one artist's methodology. This is the opposite of mass production. This is artisanal manufacturing for contemporary practice. Arsham graduated Cooper Union in 2003 with the Gelman Trust Fellowship. He has spent 23 years building a practice that refuses to stay in one lane. Sculpture. Installation. Architecture. Drawing. Film. Photography. In 2024 he mounted his first dedicated photo show at Fotografiska New York. In January 2026 he opened a restaurant called Daniel's Room in Dubai Mall. In 2021 he became creative director of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the first fine artist ever hired for that role. Each move requires different equipment, different infrastructure, different thinking. The Caliper table is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It is the physical manifestation of what happens when an artist's practice becomes too expansive for off-the-shelf solutions. This is the emerging economy nobody is talking about yet. Not sneaker drops or album rollouts, but bespoke tools for established practitioners. The demand for artist-specific furniture and studio infrastructure is climbing. Designers are being asked to engineer workspaces. Manufacturers are being asked to think like collaborators, not vendors. Caliper shipped the finished piece from Madrid to New York. Full assembly. End-to-