Awake Your Inner Vandal by Ilan Dei
Venice, California-based designer Ilan Dei has sent us his Awake Your Inner Vandal collection of furniture that features graffiti hidden inside or underneath the pieces.
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Description from Ilan Dei:
In his obsession with nature and ongoing exploration of water, Ilan Dei has created a contrasting collection between well crafted contemporary furniture and urban graffiti. Unnoticeable at first glance the graffiti is like a seedy underbelly of the furniture that you can only experience from certain angles and interactions. The elegant wood credenza, console and side table were inspired by Dei’s travels to the desert coastlines of Namibia, while the subtly constrained graffiti is applied as an urban infusion inspired by the street art around the Venice Beach Studio.
Visit Ilan Dei’s website – here.
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F-J on 30 Jul 2010 at 1:10 am #
Refinement of the medium should be left to itself. Love the ripples, but that poor wood. Please remove the graffiti.
Randall Simmons on 30 Jul 2010 at 2:08 am #
F-J, you obviously don’t understand the purpose of this work. Yes, the wood is nice, but rippled wood is nothing new. With the addition of graffiti, the designer was trying to be creative and bring something new to the world. As expected though, whenever someone tries to do something new or different, there will be plenty of people making comments about how it should be watered down to make it more normal or typical. The world is already filled with things that are normal and typical, we don’t need more of them.
It's Wood on 30 Jul 2010 at 2:28 am #
Who is the graffiti by? And is each piece customized?
Anderson on 30 Jul 2010 at 2:48 am #
Creative idea. Graffiti isn’t my style, but the idea is kind of cool.
Gretta M on 30 Jul 2010 at 4:13 am #
This is like a metaphor for someone who used to be a rebel when they were younger, but is now settled down, married, living in the suburbs with some kids. They remember those days in the past, a little bit of it is still inside them.
monkeyfumi on 01 Aug 2010 at 3:34 pm #
I like the idea, but the graffiti is a weak imitation of DAIM