Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納） by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅賞 in ファインアート・アートインスタレーションデザイン Competition Category.
銅ファインアート· 2022
Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納）
by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia
Client: Studio Minus
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in ファインアート Category
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About Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納）
「Stalker（ストーカー）」は、部屋の中央に独立して置かれ、どの方向からも近づけるようにデザインされたチェストである。素材にはブナ材、アッシュ材、合板を用い、ミラー、亜鉛メッキ鋼、ブリキ（錫メッキ鋼）の要素を組み合わせている。形状の異なる11杯の引き出しが四方に不規則に配され、縦方向の濃い色のテクスチャーの背後に隠されており、ブリキ製のハンドルだけがその位置を示している。4枚のプリズム状のミラーはコーナーリフレクター（再帰反射体）を成し、見る人がどの位置に立っていても、その視線を返す。「Stalker」は手作業で製作され、アートと家具デザインの境界に位置する作品である。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納）は、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納）は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Stalker チェスト（引き出し収納）は、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The stalker is that piece of furniture that one can't ignore.
He stares into one's soul, reflecting facets of the viewer's self. He is the alter ego with many secret drawers, hidden behind a vertical dark texture. Initially created as a mystery chest of drawers, the stalker also has four prismatic mirrors (corner reflectors) which reflect the viewer's eyes from every point one is standing. This piece of furniture creates a visual and philosophical dialogue with anyone who interacts with it. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 400 mm X 400 mm X 1700 mm
- Tags
- stalker, reflection, mirror, hidden drawer, corner reflector
- Production Technology
- beechwood, ash wood, plywood, mirror, galvanized steel, tinned steel
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult challenge was designing, positioning and aligning the corner reflector within the chest of drawers followed by finding a way of making a symmetrical frame so that drawer fronts were possible to be placed on all sides. Great debate was generated along the final height of the piece, as it is meant to be a mirror image of an unknown person. Many finishing recipes were tested, and in order to make a proper evaluation, the samples had to be made with the same texture as the finished piece.
- Research
- The nominated piece of furniture is at the border between art and furniture design. We believe that such a present piece of furniture as a chest of drawers must have a very personal touch, being a mirror of our personalities and representing us.
The construction is made out of solid wood.
The wooden frame contains eleven non-identical drawers, which are unevenly distributed on all four sides of the piece of furniture.
All the drawers have different rights and fit in the whole depth of the structure. They are made using plywood, on which we applied a texture of wooden vertical wands which continue the general vertical pattern, subtly integrating the enclosures within the design. It is the tinned steel handles that indicate the position of the drawers.
The whole process was an experiment, as the project developed organically, the piece being built manually from the construction level to its last detail. There were also details that had to be changed along the way. The piece of furniture respects the three registers corresponding with the human body: head-body-legs. The legs were an experiment. Being made out of vertical welded steel they didn't support the wooden structure well. That is why they had to be bent.
We believe in the idea of makers, that by building manually a piece of furniture one can also create a piece of art. By working manually, the design decisions are more assumed at a detail level.
The general concept, the structure, and all the details including the finishings are also a controlled result of more tries.
The stalker remains a piece of furniture at the border between art and furniture design. - Inspiration
- One of the things the Covid-19 Pandemic did to us was to make us reflect upon ourselves. The stalker is a vessel for our alter ego, constantly and obsessive looking back. As the mirror image must have a soul, Items, memory anchors of our past self are kept in its drawers, concealed behind a vertical dark texture. This piece of furniture creates a visual and philosophical dialogue with anyone who interacts with it.
The stalker represents our alter ego, and is inspired by a person who discovers the partner's secrets, relating to the other person almost as to himself, as a mirror image, however keeping mysterious drawers. - Project Duration
- The project started in 2020 and was finished in 2021 in Timisoara, Romania
- Operation Flow
- The stalker is a piece of furniture that can be positioned in the center of a room, so he can be approached from any side.
- Team Members
- Milincu Octavian Camil
Tudoran Otilia Alexandra - Image Credits
- Image 1-5: photographer: Diana Bilec, The Stalker, 2022.
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