Cupboards
Date: 2006
Commissioned by: Galerie Kreo, Paris (available here)
Type: One off
The Cupboards were designed for an exhibition at Kreo in 2006 and started as the project Cover Cupboards in 2003.
The Cover cupboards were two cupboards made out of one original antique cupboard.
By designing Plexiglas sides, which are milled in different decorations and techniques like text, dots and photos and after purifying blue resin walls, the old and the new elements merge into 16 new cubes. The 16 cubes formed two new cupboards called Cover Cupboard and shown at her solo exhibition in the Design Museum in London.
Jongerius developed this prototype into 9 solo cupboards. They become objects in there own right by adding white lacquered wooden doors, drawers and legs.
The research is a study on thick and thinner sidewalls, a play with cupboard elements like drawers, doors and shelves. Experiments with new sides versus antique original cupboard elements, decorations in photos and text in different techniques.
courtesy Galerie Kreo