Irish designer Domhnall Nolan has created the Play Pieces range of modular sex furniture that takes cues from retro gym equipment and aims to be gender-inclusive.
The range contains two items of furniture as well as a detachable cage wall. Nolan crafted the designs for Joyride, a queer kink night launching at Corsica Studios in London this month.
Domhnall Nolan designed a range of modular sex furniture
Play Piece 01 is a loveseat-style folding bed composed of six adaptable modules that can be configured in numerous ways to cater to any sexual activity.
"I wanted to create pieces to make people feel sexual and to react to that in their own way," said Nolan. "They're non-prescriptive pieces that you can use in whatever way you desire." "This approach was very much just 'sex between people' ? any kind of person doing any kind of sexual activity. Which in itself is a very queer approach," they told Dezeen.
Play Piece 01 is a loveseat-style folding bed
The modules were upholstered in cognac-hued leatherette that intends to recall retro gym equipment, which attach to a steel folding leg frame with swivel hooks and chains, created by metalworker Daniel Higgins.
The bed can be arranged into numerous positions.
The modular furniture was created to be flexible
"The tonal palette was a very important part of the design," acknowledged Nolan, who said that they were also informed by the sexual liberation that emerged in the 1970s.
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