One of our favorite furniture designs is Ettore Sottsass’ Gopuram table. The table is such that it features an intensity of superfluous “legs”. It is great, because it is funny, whilst simultaneously being good looking, as well as putting pressure on rote function. Form doesn’t follow function with the table — form follows whim. It thoroughly serviced Sottsass’ desire to “destroy the possibility of having a single clear image, something solid, self-confident… [and] to create surprises that make people think.”
This is why we very much like Laura Segalà’s design series: La Meva Regadora no Rega (My Watering Can Does not Water). By messing with the formal expectation and purpose of standard household objects, she reinvigorates them and their context. As well, her breath of bringing the concept to life is thoroughly realized: a video, a book and the objects themselves.
This is why we very much like Laura Segalà’s design series: La Meva Regadora no Rega (My Watering Can Does not Water). By messing with the formal expectation and purpose of standard household objects, she reinvigorates them and their context. As well, her breath of bringing the concept to life is thoroughly realized: a video, a book and the objects themselves.