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SOCKS+FURNITURE COLLECTION BY GREG PAPOVE . WHEN A SOCK…MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!
28/06/2012
(Sometimes) Odd is beautiful. Or Funny at least. Greg Papove, young designer from Vancouver, Canada, invented a small and curious collection of house furniture, complements and lighting, called Socks+Furniture consisting in a coffee table, a floor lamp (and a carpet) and a sofa.
“This collection shows how we can be inspired, even from the most simple things, too – Greg explains – even the most ordinary or old objects can be reinterpreted in a different and newer light”. With this new project, Greg explored the relationship user-product and understand the opportunity of recycling existing objects arising from an ordinary object (happy Alessandro Mendini!!!) such as a SOCK!
The furniture where the reference is more evident is the FIVE TOES COFFEE TABLE. Well supported by 5 toes, like its name says, it is designed to be put together or disassembled using socks as fixing elements. Not to be neglected, this structure allows minimum amount of space for packaging and transportation. The user can indulge himself in choosing different types of socks, white ones, colored ones or unpaired ones becoming a real decoration. The table top is made by a mix of cotton and gypsum polymer giving it a very solid surface.
The most curious element is Zap, the floor lamp supplied with a woolly carpet base. So weird! Don’t you think? But that’s just because of it that electricity is generated by the socks’ rubbing! This energy activates the lighting once the user touches the lamp. Moreover, it is set up with an adjustable timer for turning it off.
Not least UNITY SOFA, that literally takes advantage of the concept of sock. So simple: A colored cover dresses three or more unpaired chairs reuniting them optically and physically in one chair. A recreational and original idea aimed at recycling some old disused chairs.
