Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia

Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Đồng in Thiết kế Mỹ thuật Competition Category.

ĐồngMỹ thuật· 2022

Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo

by Milincu Camil and Tudoran Otilia

Client: Studio Minus

A' Design Award Đồng Winner in Mỹ thuật Category

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The Design

About Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo

Stalker là một chiếc tủ ngăn kéo được thiết kế để đứng độc lập ở trung tâm căn phòng, cho phép người xem tiếp cận từ bất kỳ phía nào. Tác phẩm được làm từ gỗ dẻ gai, gỗ tần bì và ván ép, kết hợp với các chi tiết bằng gương, thép mạ kẽm và thép tráng thiếc. Mười một ngăn kéo không đồng nhất được bố trí không đều trên cả bốn mặt, ẩn giấu sau lớp kết cấu tối màu theo chiều dọc, trong khi các tay nắm bằng thép tráng thiếc đánh dấu vị trí của chúng. Bốn tấm gương lăng trụ tạo thành một bộ phản xạ góc, phản chiếu lại ánh nhìn của người xem từ mọi điểm đứng. Stalker được chế tác thủ công, tồn tại ở ranh giới giữa nghệ thuật và thiết kế nội thất.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Đồng

Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo là người chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Đồng, một sự công nhận vô cùng danh giá dành cho các thiết kế xuất sắc nổi bật về sự sáng tạo, tài khéo léo và sự sắc sảo. Những người chiến thắng giải Đồng là những hiện vật rất điêu luyện và sáng tạo ấn tượng, xác thực kinh nghiệm phong phú, trí tưởng tượng và sự tháo vát của các nhà thiết kế. Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo được kỳ vọng là một vật phẩm được đánh giá cao, ngưỡng mộ và trân trọng, chuyên nghiệp và đổi mới đáng chú ý. Thiết kế chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Đồng này tích hợp các thực hành tốt nhất trong nghệ thuật, khoa học, thiết kế và công nghệ, và xuất sắc nhờ sự chú ý đến chi tiết. Stalker Tủ Ngăn Kéo thỏa mãn nhu cầu một cách tuyệt vời, chạm đến ham muốn, làm say mê cảm xúc và thu hút sự tò mò.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.