RE:d totems
Urban and Public Furniture Design
Public and home spaces just cannot confine to utilitarian things, there is an explicit demand for decorative items that can make the interior one of a kind, spiritual and bright. However, purely decorative items are short-lived and require use of new resources for their production. The RE:d totems mask collection is designed to cure consumer pain for the interior ornamental constituent that doesn’t use primary materials. 8 masks made of 100% recycled HDPE are an attempt to prove that recycled plastic CAN decorate. Ancient Slavic symbols and images, totem and ritual masks of the peoples of Eurasia, which our ancestors often created from waste – small scraps of fabrics, ribbons, leather, birch bark, straw, clay, wood or stone seem just the right source of inspiration. So a reasonable ancient approach met with the modern problem of excessive consumption of plastic and was embodied in 8 wall “totems” that make spaces special without harming the environment.