Home Office
Press Release StoreHome/Office is a project which seems not to fit with the rest of our projects. Instead, it's directly linked to previous ones and specially to PET Lamp. Once again we chose an industrially produced object and transformed it by the use of a traditional textile technique. Instead of having as a starting point a refused object which has lost its function and transform it into some other product, we decided to work on a design classic, the Aluminium Chair by the Eames designed in 1958, and applied to it an ornamentation full of connotations.
The starting point of Home/Office was not just analyzing the object itself, but also the company which manufactures it and the status it has achieved. Vitra’s great achievement has been bringing the office home and taking the home to the office, and we wanted the project to materialize that concept through a subtle intervention which generates a strong visual impact.
As a sign of respect to the chair, it has had a non aggressive and reversible intervention by just passing a needle through the holes of its standard net woven fabric leaving its trace in the form of a Victorian petit point flower. Two icons clashing to bring to life the concept of the manufacturer of the chair.
The ornamentation of the chair is done stitch by stitch, completely by hand, by a professional artisan. It challenges our preconceptions and stresses our impression of just how much hand labor and how much industry is really applied to what we understand as an industrial object.
- Making of Home Office. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Home Office. Photo by ACdO
- Home Office Collection. Photo by ACdO
- Working space. Photo by Aina Lütken
- Home Office along with dining table. Photo by Aina Lütken
- Previous ACdO Studio. Photo by ACdO
Home Office
Home/Office is a project which seems not to fit with the rest of our projects. Instead, it's directly linked to previous ones and specially to PET Lamp. Once again we chose an industrially produced object and transformed it by the use of a traditional textile technique. Instead of having as a starting point a refused object which has lost its function and transform it into some other product, we decided to work on a design classic, the Aluminium Chair by the Eames designed in 1958, and applied to it an ornamentation full of connotations.
The starting point of Home/Office was not just analyzing the object itself, but also the company which manufactures it and the status it has achieved. Vitra’s great achievement has been bringing the office home and taking the home to the office, and we wanted the project to materialize that concept through a subtle intervention which generates a strong visual impact.
- Making of Home Office. Photo by ACdO
- Making of Home Office. Photo by ACdO
- Home Office Collection. Photo by ACdO
- Working space. Photo by Aina Lütken
- Home Office along with dining table. Photo by Aina Lütken
- Previous ACdO Studio. Photo by ACdO
As a sign of respect to the chair, it has had a non aggressive and reversible intervention by just passing a needle through the holes of its standard net woven fabric leaving its trace in the form of a Victorian petit point flower. Two icons clashing to bring to life the concept of the manufacturer of the chair.
The ornamentation of the chair is done stitch by stitch, completely by hand, by a professional artisan. It challenges our preconceptions and stresses our impression of just how much hand labor and how much industry is really applied to what we understand as an industrial object.
