Sam Baron of design research centre Fabrica in Italy has created rolls of patterned tape for covering old and unwanted furniture.
“The idea is to create a covering system that create a second skin, and a second life to some old furniture that can be found in second hand market or in the street,”says Baron. “It’s design through re-design, basically.”
There are three Fabrica Decorative System designs, available from Fabrica shops.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
July 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Here you go again,
Walking down this path you’ve seen a thousand times before.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
if you like the look of hobo patches, yeah…
but why not just paint the furniture –
this look is cheap – like a cob job cover up with colored duck tape (which btw you can pick up at the $ store)
July 9th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Is this some kind of self-annealing miracle tape that seamlessly covers that item and makes it look like it’s been powder coated? Or is it like duct tape?
July 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
lovely. happy, childish and playful.
B20m: everybody knows that everything’s already done.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Dezeen should really consider creating a “junk” section.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
marti guixé has a great concept with tape …but here it’s nothing, no think … no art no design
July 9th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Wow, total agreement with rimane, dezeen must really be starved for contributions to have published this…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I’ve already got this product at work except that mine has FRAGILE written on it in red
July 10th, 2008 at 1:57 am
\sigh
\snore
July 10th, 2008 at 4:06 am
What a blatant rip-off of El Ultimo Grito’s tape installations from 5 years ago!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 4:14 am
I think the designer have to consider “what is design” … is shame he is Fabrica head of design department. waste people time! he should think about resign his position.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Way too late with this one. Sam Baron try and keep up !
As mentioned this concept was more or less championed by the likes of Droog , Hella Jongerius, El Ultimo Grito, Marti guixé, with far greater impact.
This guy is head of design at the Fabrica and surely already knows this ?
Advice…Stop wasting our time with this ugly uninspired BS and concentrate on your Job title.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
wake me when its over………………..
July 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
During designer’s day in Paris sam baron exhibited a gold ceramic radio …
it’s in a golden trend as Arik Levy gold doorstopper and usb gold or starck bubu gold or massonnet stool gold or 5.5 designers light gold… but it’s
design product using a trendy color it’s not a ready made radio in ceramics
http://www.fabrica.it/studio-area/design/projects/gold-bibelots-designers-day-paris
July 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Thank you for the censorship on my previous comments Dezeen.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Patterned tape for covering old and unwanted furniture that remains unwanted
July 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Hi to all, a dear friend(a designer) sent me this link.
We focus on works with adhesive tapes. Interesting comments here.
I must admit that I agree with you all,but only about these photos.. no art no design, look like a cheap way to do design…If someone want to do cool design with tapes, need to be more precise, giving a perfect pattern, trasform the concept of tape in a way that u cannot recognize it…this is the real “skin”. The product (the tapes of Baron) looks very nice..maybe put in a nicer way all will look different.
Baron said -“The idea is to create a covering system that create a second skin, and a second life to some old furniture that can be found in second hand market or in the street,” -“It’s design through re-design, basically.”-
ok. maybe he is right..doing nice tapes with old stylish colors or old textures could be cool..but why the object looks so silly? where is the strong “idea”? Do u want to do trasform old furniture? Do your best! ..its not enough to put your costumized adhesive tapes with nice-old-color on stuff. Maybe Im arrogant, i know, I’m not making nothing new..but i can show sample of my works to explain my ideas in a better way( how is possible use tape in more nicer way).
on myspace theres some sample of tapes over objects : http://www.myspace.com/nocurves
Sorry for the long reply. Thanks and have a nice day
No Curves
July 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Lastly, I just have to ask, where is this so-called “system”? It’s rolls of tape, innit?
July 10th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hey No curve’s work has infinite more appeal than this pretentious “me too” effort by Baron.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Sam do us a favour and Duct tape yourself, now that would be original !
July 12th, 2008 at 7:27 am
rave rave…gush!….extended platitues….use of the word avant garde… and anti….
thats a lovely rocking chair in the first pic…
but how do i get all this fakking tape of it!?
July 13th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Sam Baron is a pseudo-designer. I can’t even imagine why he’s at Fabrica!!!
I mean, I know we can’t ask for a Hayon everyday, but there are thousands and thousands of much ‘better’ designers to put at Fabrica instead of Sam Baron. I mean… Fabrica is experiencing one of the worst ideas/design period of its life!
Sam, do us all a favour and please leave.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
As I know Fabrica have a lot of great young designers… but just not a right person in charge… sigh, Sam Baron!!
July 14th, 2008 at 8:38 am
DUCT TAPE FIXES EVERYTHING (EXCEPT STUPIDITY)
July 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
what a load of crap and wasting tape that could be used for somthing useful
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Hi guys,
Here is a way to recycle old broken furniture found in the street or in antique shops.
It changes the shape completely.
http://www.oscarlhermitte.com/index.php?work=37