The Elmer by Federica Zama, is an island supported on one side by a bi-facial element: drawer unit and showcase, and on the other by a totem that emerges from the top and becomes a flower vase.
It is an island to look at and touch with childlike wonder. Unusual combinations of materials (briarwood, glass, st/steel flue liner and travertine) give life to a kitchen unit that combines art and functionality.
It is called Elmer because like the colourful little elephant born from the imagination of the writer and illustrator David McKee it is a collage of shapes and colours.
I chose to combine a material that I associate with my childhood (briarwood), a material from the earth (travertine), a recycled material (discarded glass) and recycled chimney liner a piece that seems familiar and strange, ancient and futuristic, playful and serious.
For the top I chose a slab of Travertine with a visible split. The intention is to reduce the working of the slab as much as possible, to show its fascinating split derived from extraction from the quarry. The slab also descends on the side and ends with a sinuous movement that replicates the pattern of the briarwood chest of drawers it covers. The two cabinet doors are made of two panes of glass recovered from antique stained glass from a disused warehouse.
In my designs I always try to bring together the old with the new: my objects must be contemporary but at the same time evocative and poetic.
The recycled st/steel chimney liner is decorated with oxygen torch by hand by myself.
Recycled chimney liner can be customised in height
| Dimensions LxWxH | 180x75x90cm (71x30x35'') |
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| Weight (kg) | 100 |
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