The New Readymades
Repurposed typologies
Repurposed typologies
Repurposed typologies
Year
2017
Client
NOV Gallery
Service
Industrial design
Year
2017
Client
NOV Gallery
Service
Industrial design
Year
2017
Client
NOV Gallery
Service
Industrial design
Catching up to Marcel Duchamps' vision in a series of objects designed with familiar typologies
Catching up to Marcel Duchamps' vision in a series of objects designed with familiar typologies
HEC IA
Electives program
HEC IA
Electives program
HEC IA
Electives program
Reflexion
If the readymades in design endure and are reintroduced (Tube chair by Joe Colombo by Capellini), there is an undeniable reality today to revive craftsmanship and know-how by adding value to existing, durable and recycled materials or objects and rendering them precious and unique.
“From worthless to worthwhile… What is your new readymade?”
— NOV Gallery
Project
The locked objects series is a personal reinterpretation of a universal archetype’s function: the bike padlock. Its geometric design is generously contemporary and its function quite obvious. Why would this kind of shape lock bikes exclusively? From this standpoint and keeping in mind both the original aesthetic and purpose of this existing object, we transposed it into another category: domestic furniture. The symbolic behind locking an object conveys the ideas of assembly, sturdiness and safety, which is what we wanted to translate by designing a glass shelf; fragile at first sight but securely assembled with the help of 2 padlocks. A ready-made object for a steady-made product.
Catching up to Marcel Duchamps' vision in a series of objects designed with familiar typologies
Reflexion
If the readymades in design endure and are reintroduced (Tube chair by Joe Colombo by Capellini), there is an undeniable reality today to revive craftsmanship and know-how by adding value to existing, durable and recycled materials or objects and rendering them precious and unique.
“From worthless to worthwhile… What is your new readymade?”
— NOV Gallery
Project
The locked objects series is a personal reinterpretation of a universal archetype’s function: the bike padlock. Its geometric design is generously contemporary and its function quite obvious. Why would this kind of shape lock bikes exclusively? From this standpoint and keeping in mind both the original aesthetic and purpose of this existing object, we transposed it into another category: domestic furniture. The symbolic behind locking an object conveys the ideas of assembly, sturdiness and safety, which is what we wanted to translate by designing a glass shelf; fragile at first sight but securely assembled with the help of 2 padlocks. A ready-made object for a steady-made product.
Catching up to Marcel Duchamps' vision in a series of objects designed with familiar typologies
Reflexion
If the readymades in design endure and are reintroduced (Tube chair by Joe Colombo by Capellini), there is an undeniable reality today to revive craftsmanship and know-how by adding value to existing, durable and recycled materials or objects and rendering them precious and unique.
“From worthless to worthwhile… What is your new readymade?”
— NOV Gallery
Project
The locked objects series is a personal reinterpretation of a universal archetype’s function: the bike padlock. Its geometric design is generously contemporary and its function quite obvious. Why would this kind of shape lock bikes exclusively? From this standpoint and keeping in mind both the original aesthetic and purpose of this existing object, we transposed it into another category: domestic furniture. The symbolic behind locking an object conveys the ideas of assembly, sturdiness and safety, which is what we wanted to translate by designing a glass shelf; fragile at first sight but securely assembled with the help of 2 padlocks. A ready-made object for a steady-made product.
Catching up to Marcel Duchamps' vision in a series of objects designed with familiar typologies
HEC IA
Electives program
HEC IA
Electives program