Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Leo Maher has created a series of unusual furniture pieces that combine references to queer culture from across history.
Unfamiliar Passions is a series of five designs featuring an assortment of visual references, including a cockerel, a backgammon board and an assortment of body parts.
As well as serving a practical function, each object uses a different lens to explore the history and culture of homosexuality, from the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans right up to the modern day.
Unfamiliar Passions is a series of five furniture designs that explore themes of homosexuality
"The series investigates the history of homosexuality and its dance through time and western civilisation," said Maher, who graduated from DAE's bachelor degree programme. "Each piece of the series explores the heritage of identifiers, legends, euphemisms, deviant behaviours and signalling mechanisms, noting how they transcend cultures and societies before ending up woven into the cloth of modern gay life."
Homo-Delicatus explores different traits believed to indicate homosexuality
Homo-Delicatus is an elevated bowl that references characteristics used to single out homosexuals at different points in history, from physical traits to fashion choices.
It incorporates a 3D-printed limp wrist, a ceramic leather boot and a specific type of walk depicted in sheet metal.
Violet Patriarchy looks at the role of punishment in homosexual relationships
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