Vase-Cupboard-Indian-view
Jurgen Bey, Vase-Cupboard-Indian-view
Jurgen Bey, Vase-Cupboard-Indian-view
Jurgen Bey’s project takes into account the fact that ceramic, being a fragile material, is protected, and thus shipped packed in wooden crates. Starting from this assumption, the author has made the traditional packing crate a part of the work, transforming it into a cupboard whose interior conceals a flower vase, which can be displayed by opening the doors. Hence, the packing crate becomes a part of the vase: crate and vase should not be considered as two separate works, but as giving life to a single project, developed simultaneously, thus transforming the packaging into a design element.
Jurgen Bey, Vase-Cupboard-Indian-view. “Ospiti inaspettati”, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan Design Week 2010. Photography: courtesy of Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan
Vase-Cupboard-Indian-view by Jurgen Bey was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the following exhibitions: “Ospiti inaspettati”, Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, Milan Design Week 2010; “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2011.
