Within our scope of work as a design group, we deal with producing furniture based on original furniture from 50s, 60s and 70s. Product design of that time was created with fascination for mass production. Nowadays, we are all over surrounded by mass products – cheap and short-lived. All this makes the user indifferent to the items around them.

By means of our products we would like to focus the attention to individualism, value of handmade items. We do not claim that users should get rid of cars and computers to the benefit of sheep grazing starting from tomorrow. However, it would be valuable that, in the houses equipped with standardized and typical products, the thought provoking and non- automatically used items appear, which the users could with all confidence name as their own!

Our project is a form of a dialogue with a design from the years 50-70, a play between form and convention. We use their form, shape but we alter the design process. The handcraft is competed by computer designing which allows to generate thousands of variants, advances thinking and provokes other types of solutions.

Fawory team:
Małgorzata Piotrowska and Monika Niezabitowska

Cooperation:
Michał Piasecki www.michalpiasecki.com
Bartłomiej Popiela

Photos: Piotr Maciaszek & FAWORY

Project is co-financed by European Union
within European Social Fund