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Mirror Periscope Collection
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Madrid  | Spain | 2021
Marta Pascual/u-ak    +Follow

The project was born as a search for inspiration during the months of confinement due to the pandemic caused by COVID in Madrid. Faced with the lack of experience and as a creative exercise, the designer sought to find uses in common pieces she had around her that were different from her own. Playing and creating new uses for these objects and new forms, she came up with the idea of working with a PVC pipe elbow.

She first looked for other functions of the piece until she developed it and expanded it with sketches and prototypes. From this piece and the work he had previously developed with mirrors, the possibility arose of joining both products and creating a mirror piece.

Making the prototypes, she saw that it was nice that it had more uses than just the mirror itself. That is why she broke it down into pieces to make them into her own containers, to house objects as keys, rings, sunglasses and flowers, that would complete the function of looking at a mirror and that could also be combined in colours, sizes and shapes.

 

 

The designer has worked with sustainable materials and processes since the beginning of the studio, so for this project it was perfect to make the pieces in 3D printing and in a material of vegetable origin, PLA, which completed the maxims with which the designer works: sustainable and innovative design.

This piece provides a beautiful design, made in natural and renewable raw material. This is a contemporary interpretation of the old dressing tables, where you can look at yourself and store objects.

The piece is 36 cm high and has a diameter of 12.5 cm. The piece is broken down into two pieces of 6 cm high and 12.5 cm in diameter, another curved piece of 12 cm and the final piece of the mirror which is 8 cm.

It is a very complete, beautiful, innovative, avant-garde and sustainable design that fulfils multiple functions and allows the user to re-create new pieces and functions by combining the elements. It has been produced in three colours: Klein blue, orange and semi-translucent. The challenge was to create an avant-garde, beautiful and functional piece that would also surprise the user with new uses hidden in the object itself.

Continuing the study of form and function, the collection has continued to grow into a family of products where form is followed by function. Such as this wall accessory that functions as a hanger/shelf to store necessary items to have on hand, such as keys, glasses, etc

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Marta Pascual/u-ak
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Madrid | Spain
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