Almost all furniture once possessed a life elsewhere before it became an object in your home. It might have been a tree, or a metal, or a fluff of cotton, or any other of the multitude of resources harnessed from nature and then tossed in the cycle of urban living. Artist Hongtao Zhou, in his installation of ice furniture, seeks to re-frame this cycle by creating a simple, temporary, and very cold place to sit on the shores of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin.

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