I was aiming to buy something (which I did, again) and end up at IKEA meeting an old folks looking for a twin bed and a closet. They remembered that I do like giving some “design ideas” on how to choose a great bedroom furnitures, like as if. I didn’t take a photo of us since it wasn’t allowed - if only I just snapped and didn’t ask the yellow-uniformed guy.
The digital age we live in no longer accepts the semantics of ancient craft and demands multi-sensorial experiences - any object we bring in our house should be an expression of our modern being and development. The iconic egg-like object functions as the foundation for new life - it is a material visualization of digital and sensual technology and nature synthesizing.
Turn old magazines and catalogs into extra seating around the home. Simply affix the cotton and nylon straps around a stacked bundle of catalogs or magazines. The perfect solution for turning unruly piles of reading material into extra seating is part recycling tool, part home organizer, part storage and part furniture.
My palette of materials consists of rattan, buri, kawayan and abaca. Each has their own texture, colour, smell and sound. You can bend, twist and weave them in endless ways. It is a feast of the senses to work with these.