Stalker 서랍장 by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 동상 in 순수 예술 및 예술 설치 디자인 Competition Category.
동순수 예술· 2022
Stalker 서랍장
by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia
Client: Studio Minus
A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 순수 예술 Category
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About Stalker 서랍장
스토커(Stalker)는 방 중앙에 독립적으로 놓여 사방에서 접근할 수 있도록 디자인된 서랍장이다. 이 작품은 너도밤나무, 물푸레나무, 합판으로 제작되었으며 거울, 아연도금 강판, 주석도금 강판 요소가 함께 사용되었다. 서로 다른 형태의 열한 개 서랍이 네 면에 불규칙하게 배치되어 세로 방향의 어두운 텍스처 뒤에 감춰져 있으며, 주석도금 강재 손잡이가 그 위치를 표시한다. 네 개의 프리즘형 거울은 코너 리플렉터를 이루어 보는 이가 어느 위치에 서 있든 그 시선을 되돌려준다. 스토커는 수작업으로 제작되었으며 예술과 가구 디자인의 경계에 자리한다.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 동상
Stalker 서랍장, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. Stalker 서랍장, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. Stalker 서랍장, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.
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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