Visitors to a booth at Design Miami were invited to damage furniture created by Georgian design duo Rooms.
In Circulation, displayed at Design Miami earlier this month, featured several pieces taken from previous collections by the Georgian practice Rooms Studio.
Rooms' Bus Stop Benches made from wood and stone to formed the centrepiece of the exhibition
A number were designed to look vandalised, like a bench graffitied by Tbilisi designer Max Machaidze, and were intended to be reminiscent of public pieces found in Post-Soviet Georgia, an era marked by new freedoms and artistic expressions.
"A notion of privacy and personal belonging ? a basic concept for most - was difficult to comprehend for a society that was raised in a socialist country," Rooms founders and designers Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia said. "At school, one could find knife-carved desks and chairs," they added. "The same story was continued on benches in public spaces with names and personal messages rigidly scratched into them."
Visitors to the Design Miami booth were encouraged to etch their names or other phrases into the wooden seats
Works in the collection were painted and etched with graphics and words similar to the "hidden protests" and "personal marks" left behind by citizens after the regime fell.
"In Circulation explores both the visual appeal of these historic objects as well as the reason behind such trashing," the studio continued...