Prostheses and Grafts Home Furniture by Studio Mk27

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DESIGN DETAILS
DESIGN NAME:
Prostheses and Grafts

PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Home Furniture

INSPIRATION:
A small sample of the extraordinary repertoire of objects designed and constructed by some civil construction laborers in our country. Although displaced from their lócus vivendi, these pieces place before us the absolute imaginative competence of anonymous authors, revealing the functional strategies used to adapt to work and life within the confines of the project sites.

UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The furniture is from the project sites of the office, constructed anonymously by civil construction laborers in Brazil. All of the furniture in this exhibit was used at the sites. Normally, with the end of the construction, some of these pieces are lost and others are reused at other sites. The furniture from the projects underwent some small interventions, realized in a precise and artisan manner.

OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
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PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
the project started in 2008 and finished in march 2010 with the exhibit in micasa volB, São Paulo, Brazil.

FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY:
Furniture Design

PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
1. Radiola Table Bench-table with Ipod dock 2. Abuletada Table Table for the dining room with a glass table-top 3. Alumiada Table Table-bench with a copper luminary and carbon filament light-bulb 4. Trilili Bar-Wagon Accessory box with stainless steel strip and industrial castors 5. Vai-te-mundo Hat Stand Hat Stand with metallic suspenders 6. Toró Umbrella Stand Wooden basket with chromium-plated metallic finish 7. Escambau Table Low table with a mirrored-drawer finish 8. Quereres Table Table-bench with a wooden jewelry box in red synthetic enamel 9. Chamego Bench Benches joined together by a carbon fiber plate 10. Sampled Bench Bench with gold-plated strip to replace wooden strip. 11. Pregado Bench Bench-table fixed with golden nails 12. Luizão XV Bench Large bench with velvet cushion and golden details 13. Dá Hora Table Bench-table with a valve-numbered clock 14. Fulo Table Table-bench with a laboratory glassware vase 15. Bo Benchette Child's bench with giraffe back 16. Luzlino Table Bench-table with night-lamp

SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
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TAGS:
spontaneous design

RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
I am inclined to agree with the poet: “The random will protect us”. In his book “The Savage Mind” Levi-Strauss explains that the “bricoleur (handyman) is someone who works with his hands and uses means (convoluted, cunning) diverse from those used by the artisan [...]. The bricoleur (handyman) can perform a large number of tasks, but, different than the engineer, he is not subordinated to the availability of materials or the tools designed and necessary for the proposed project” (Lévi-Strauss, 1966).

CHALLENGE:
It is important to emphasize that the addition of industrialized elements to the original pieces provoke an effect of contrasts and de-familiarization, an unexpected conflagration of the materials that connect numerous temporalities, identities and new functions. In most of the pieces constructed with the re-use of wood, there is some metal, some carbon fibers, some glass, causing us to re-think the transition of the products and the materials and, therewith, the very limits of the planet.

ADDED DATE:
2011-01-30 11:54:16

TEAM MEMBERS (1) :
marcio kogan + alvaro wolmer . beatriz meyer . carolina castroviejo . diana radomysler . eduardo chalabi . eduardo glycerio . eduardo gurian . elisa friedmann . gabriel kogan . lair reis . luciana antunes . maria cristina motta . mariana simas . oswaldo pessano . renata furlanetto . samanta cafardo . suzana glogowski

IMAGE CREDITS:
Studio Mk27, 2010.



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NOMINATION DETAILS

Prostheses and Grafts Home Furniture by Studio Mk27 is a Nominee in Furniture Design Category.

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Prostheses and Grafts Home Furniture by Studio Mk27 is Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2010 - 2011.



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