Matteo Cibic envisions plants of the future for London Design Festival exhibition
Italian designer Matteo Cibic imagined futuristic plants when creating these bizarre-looking ceramic and glass objects that puff out perfume, which London gallery Seeds is showcasing during London Design Festival.
Cibic envisions a future where products such as knitwear, rubber and chewing gum are not manufactured by machines, and could instead be produced by plants.
He has created ceramics to show what these plants and smell might look ? and is presenting them in an exhibition called Dermapoliesis, on show in the Brompton Design District throughout this year's London Design Festival.
"We are used to sourcing raw materials on the other side of the world, shipping them to other continents and processing them in very intricate ways," Cibic told Dezeen. "Why can't we imagine a new way of producing food and products"" "Can we transform plants into new 'organic machines' that will produce processed products instead of raw materials, directly in our courtyard or in our living room"" he added.
The exhibition is being staged at a satellite venue for London gallery Seeds, a former garage that had been transformed into a cosy hideaway using grey paint and luxurious satin-like curtains.
Inside, Cibic presents 42 scent-making ceramics in a variety of unusual shapes. One is made up of a cluster of circles, while another resembles a mini palm tree. Others are adorned with horns, silver bobbles and crystallised forms.
These objects, calle...
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