Cologne 2009: young German designer Pierre Kracht has created a collection of objects called Wrapped.
The collection consists of a free standing lamp, a light fitting and a chair all made of a cocoon of thread.
Kracht entered the project into the d[3] contest organised by IMM Cologne 2009 last month, where it was chosen as part of an exhibition featuring 30 other designs; see our earlier story.
Here’s a description by Kracht:
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Wrapped – ensnares the past
Memories fashion our lives, yet fade with time. We want to hang on to them, secure them for the future, though this can only ever be an aspiration, for their true content remains ephemeral. Things become witnesses of their own history, their corporeality acts like a host. Their bodies are wrapped in thin string so that in the end they disappear; dissolve completely. Thus only their external forms remain in the usual place in the room, a mere hint, a shadow of what they are. Because they are no longer there, they question and confirm their purpose and function.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am
love the idea… great concept and well transferred to real objects! specially dig the chandellier… nice stuff
February 24th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
delightful!
February 24th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Ghostly, wonderful, like a silken spiders web.
I would interested to know how he has done this. Are the wrapped ‘bodies’ previously existing furniture pieces and if so how did he get them out from the middle once wrapped? If not, are they wrapped around something which is able to be burnt out or dissolved etc?
February 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Dude,
Didnt Flos do this several years back??????
Great pieces, though
Bri
February 24th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Great stuff!
February 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Reminds me a lot of Dutch designer Bertjan Pot… Bertjan’s project was smarter too. The re-use of known forms has already been done a lot the last 15 years but with more content, not only as an excuse for shape.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Very interesting designs.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I dig this, yet the chandelier is too much Marcel Wanders..
http://designcrack.com/v2/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/zeppelin-pendant-lamp-by-marcel-wanders.jpg
February 24th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
i like projects that tells stories.
it reminds me of this other project:
http://mocoloco.com/archives/010103.php
February 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
This is smarter than the Moth balling that flos use. I like this a lot. I don’t think that you can compare to the Wanders design this is much more haunting and wonderful.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am
brtjanpot in 2003 did the same thing
http://www.bertjanpot.nl/randomchairframeset.html