Nynke Koster

90210 Mirror (Parchment), 2025

Mirror Pigmented rubber H 40 x W 40 x D 2 in (H 102 x W 102 x D 5 cm) Open edition Dutch sculptor Nynke Koster’s 90210 Mirror employs cast Georgian moldings from Kelly Wearstler's Beverly Hills home as its frame. Modular blocks, alternating rosettes and plain panels in pigmented rubber, border the reflective surface in sequence. In Georgian and Neoclassical interiors, mirrors were traditionally positioned within elaborate wall paneling systems, surrounded by the same decorative moldings used throughout the room. Koster extracts these architectural elements from their original context and reconfigures them as the mirror's frame itself.

12-14 weeks Ships from the Netherlands

Nynke Koster was born in the Netherlands and is based in The Hague. She works at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, and heritage, casting historical ornaments—moldings, medallions, and flourishes—into rubber and fabric. Within these details, architectural form becomes a vessel for cultural memory, identity, and expression. By reimagining classical motifs as pliable, ghostly objects, Koster grants them new function and meaning, inviting touch, movement, and reflection. “Repetition plays a vital role in my practice,” she explains. “In architecture, ornament has traditionally created a sense of order and continuity, repeating along facades, ceilings, and columns. I’m drawn to that rhythm and use it to build a visual language that speaks not just of decoration, but of time and place.” Through her collaboration with Side Hustle, Koster encountered the architecture of Los Angeles for the first time. Her new body of work, 90210, draws inspiration from Wearstler’s 1926 Beverly Hills home, casting its Georgian, Federal, and Neoclassical moldings and transforming them into a series of functional objects—including a mirror, bench, chair, and stools. Removed from their original context, these shapes shift from history to abstraction.