Tokyo Designers Week: London designers Committee launch a collection of lacquered containers with plastic lids for design brand Cibone Editions in Tokyo this week.
Called Plastic Relics, the collection envisages a time in the 27th century when today’s discarded plastic components become objects of value and interest.
Each box incorporates a found plastic component as its lid.
A hand-made lacquered container is formed by extruding the profile of this plastic piece.
Tokyo Designers Week continues until tomorrow, 3 November.
Being fond of using devices of the imagination to aid their search for original work, Committee has chosen to place themselves in a future age, (perhaps a post-apocalyptic one) for this project. Oil has run out and the material world is no longer as we know it. The left over plastic items, which today we take for granted, are a source of fascination and archaeological interest, perhaps even great value.
This approach prompted Committee to select examples of humble plastic parts that could possibly come to represent the relics of this age and imagined them as strange curios that might inspire a craftsman of the time to utilise them in a far more precious way than the one they were intended for.
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