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reCOLLECTION

Location

Seattle, Wa

Date

October 2020 - April 2021

Role

Concept, Design + Fabrication

Project type

Design + Build

Credits

Photography - Jacob Sloniker

reCOLLECTION is a furniture collection designed and fabricated as my senior thesis at Cornish College of the Arts. The collection consists of five tables - a bedside table, a coffee table, a dining table, an entry table and a side table - which explore the intimate relationship between objects and associations by creating a home for people’s fondest memories. 

 

Each table arrives as a blank canvas. A shadow box nests within the top of each table, transformed from the decorative vertical plane to that of the functional plane. Within the box, is a collection of dividers. People have the ability to shape this space however they like to accommodate whatever objects they choose to house. Whether it be rocks collected from a hike you took or a matchbook from an old restaurant you used to go to, the space is filled with objects that hold the memories of things, people and places you love. Each piece becomes unique to the person who owns it as it is imbued with some essence of their being, a catalog of stories and memories to recollect and share. A museum quality lid rests on top of the dividers to protect and preserve these memories while they call the box home. A void in the table top allows you to remove the box by simply putting your hand underneath and pushing the box up and through. For the time that each object is housed, it will be given a sense of permanence and importance, but the box is easy to remove so that objects can be rotated out, conveying the impermanence of both object and memory.

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