Domestic Gathering by Stephanie Langard
Stephanie Langard has designed Domestic Gathering (Tapis), a concept for a carpet that encourages people to gather together.
From the designer
Historically the television was conceived to transmit information and entertain, but above all to gather neighbours around a single point, to create a bond.
Nowadays, new technologies have isolated members of the same family, of different age groups while they live under the same roof. However, these new technologies have permitted us to forge other bonds, other networks in a vast space making our world an even smaller place. At a time where nuclear families are struggling to come together in order to spend quality time with one another, I wish to explore the notion of forging bonds and gathering around quite a primitive element: the fire, like going back to basics. In the very idea of forging a link, and well before involving the final users, I mix up the expertise, disrupt the usual traditional production methods and blend the craftsmen together for the duration of a project.
Beyond the final product, it’s the pathway travelled together, hand in hand, which nourishes my creative approach. In this project, everything works well together to illustrate the bond, emotion, light and heat.
Design: Stephanie Langard
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