rubberware

rubberware by dasein dasein from portugal

designer's own words:

Teenager! Its classic definition is of a boy or a girl with ages between 13 and 19, although we can also think of teenagers as young people, active consumers who make creative recompositions of meaning, trying to shape an identity, which then directs their every day life.
When we look at teenagers.. What style do they have? Do they bother about style? Is it relevant to be grunge, punk, rapper or simply a Chelsea Boy?
In this world of consumerism, media provides us with the most available categories for classifying out the social world. That’s where teenagers take advantage. They are starting out. Already thinking like adults but still young enough to make a statement. They take from what they see what they aspire to and modify it to adapt to their lifestyles and beliefs in a form of their own style.
In this sense they dress up in the way they fancy, cover their mum’s choice of furniture in their bedrooms with fabrics, cover up the walls with posters so their bedrooms don’t look so much like kid’s bedrooms.
How would be suitable furniture for either a boy or a girl, a 13 or a 19 year old, a goth or a nerd?
Apparently, it would be “styless” furniture where they can recognize themselves by personalizing it. A table or a wardrobe where they can stick up their pictures without messing around and where mums can still clean it up easily.
Furniture that creates in a teenager the feeling that he/she lives in his/her own place. A world of his/her own that can quickly be changed next day at any time he/her wants. Furniture that does not impose an environment but instead it is mutable and commanded by its teenager owner. Unique objects as no other teenager would possess the same bed or wardrobe.

1. Detachable acrylic panel
2. EPDM - recycled rubber compound in planar shape
3. Mirror detail of the closet
4. Optional colors

general view

tf_02.jpg technical details

tf_03.jpg isolated objects