This project was made with furniture designer Tristan Cochrane and commisioned by KMB Berlin for their client Smart cars and was shortlisted to be exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery, London.
New York based photographer Todd Selby asked a question about the future of the city
"In the future what are the new ways your home will provide sanctuary?"
We thought that our home will be our private haven where we can build our own versions of ‘perfection’, by building with what might currently be seen as the ‘imperfections’.
We will take sanctuary and delight in the less functional, tarnished and irrational and we will personalise our homes with our own individual perceptions of beauty.
We chose to work in concrete. Each tile was separately stained with acid and we built a tiled carpet with entirely unique characteristics.
The acid staining process is an excellent medium to express the deterioration, tarnishing, oxidization, destruction and the natural processes we are fighting so hard to eradicate from our modern daily lives.
But in our vision of the future when everything is required to be ‘perfect’, only in our home will these ‘stains’ be viewed as a rare and pleasant beauty.
The home will be the last sanctuary of imperfections.