new model design: Jakub Szczęsny
Totem
Jakub is an architect and an artist whose
work revolves around secrets and surprises.
Many of his designs change their shape or
appear to be something else while hiding
their true nature. This is also the case with his
project dubbed “the narrowest house in the
world”, aka Keret House, which was included
in New York City’s MoMA collection. This
also applies to the only piece in the Alter Ego
Collection that is not a chair. The TOTEM
is supposed to conceal its true purpose of
a jewellery box behind the look of an enig-
matic yet colourful sculpture. In fact, it’s a
stack of separate modular containers that can
be configured according to your fancy. What
is worth mentioning is that it was crafted
from leftovers from the production of sheets
of plywood also manufactured by Paged.
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