Which is the easiest way to realize a product from leftovers?
INO
A modular coffee table, born as a contrast between the geometric rigor of his modules (realized with metal welded net) and the soft sinuosity of the surface (in concrete canvas) laying on them as a veil. The product, thanks to the design of three different components, makes of modularity, ductility and imagination its main characteristics.Thought as a coffe table (40x145x60cm) INO can be stretched, mixed, rearranged with creativity and imagination without losing its essence, in order to fulfill the user necessities and aesthetics needs. The three modules are designed in order to obtain at least six horizontal surfaces of different dimensions to be used and filled with complementary objects of domestic rituals, routine and narratives.
For shaping your personal version of INO the only limit is your imagination: you can compose your coffe table by using all of the modules, playing with just two or repeating one of them, you decide which one of your compositions you like best, showing the results of your creativity and needs.
The product is composed by industrial materials, or better, construction ones. Discarded materials, coming from construction sites, which are collected and transformed both in their essence and usage, giving them another chance, refurbished to be reinvented and reused as the principals of Circular Economy have though us. The modules are made with metal welded net, recycled from active or inactive construction sites.
The laying surface is made of concrete canvas, a geo-textile generally used torealize irrigation canals’ beds. It presents itself with an initial malleable aspect, gaining stiffness thanks to an hydration process. The union of these materials, considered ‘waste and poor’, aims to raise a reflection and challenge the relationship between beauty and trash, functionality and waste, affordability, spoiling material and design democracy.
