The output of Heim + Viladrich is generally sharp and lovely — but to us their Glacière ice box is really something else.
Of course there’s the plain irony: an object typically made from styrofoam made of a completely inconvenient material (limestone) — an environementalist bon mot — the short term cool (of the the standard non-biodegradable foam cooler) is ruinous to the long term cool (of glaciers). But also it is an object of great beauty. Like something Ripley might sit on to collect herself on the Nostromo, or a chest Rick Owens would use to keep bottles some sort of grey, custom health drink. And that sandy, worn sarcophagus color!
(Oh the carbon foot print of having one shipped to Los Angeles...)
Of course there’s the plain irony: an object typically made from styrofoam made of a completely inconvenient material (limestone) — an environementalist bon mot — the short term cool (of the the standard non-biodegradable foam cooler) is ruinous to the long term cool (of glaciers). But also it is an object of great beauty. Like something Ripley might sit on to collect herself on the Nostromo, or a chest Rick Owens would use to keep bottles some sort of grey, custom health drink. And that sandy, worn sarcophagus color!
(Oh the carbon foot print of having one shipped to Los Angeles...)