16 October 2009
It would be so purrfect to have one of these furniture pieces in my bedroom or office room. These book shelves and chairs are artistic, functional and cute.
This is a project by NEL, a platform for experimentation formed by a group of Mexican designers. "Fill In the Cat" is an interesting project they presented in 2006.
ABOUT THE PROJECT:"Three characters disappear from large, solid white blocks, and their absence suddenly makes them important. The resulting emptiness is filled with the user's belongings and through this action the silhouettes' meaning shifts. The pieces suggest a continuous play between interaction and representation, where daily use generates a continuously changing story: a cat that reads Italo Calvino, a book filled with coins, a living room where birds come to eat the cake's crumbles…"
- NEL
Images via NEL