The housing of collections, at home, poses a conundrum as a collection's tenancy on an existing piece of furniture tends to sublimate and impede said furniture’s conventional purpose.

With my thesis, I created new Architectural Hardware for the intentional housing of collections. Based heavily on my observations on the pleasurableness of the collecting process, as well as relationships observed between various archetypes of furnitures and their housed collections. In effect, properly integrating a collection into a collector’s life by first housing it harmoniously within his home.

Perhaps a regular table on first glance, further probing reveals a secret collection housed under the table. The operational functions of the table remain despite the parasite latched onto it. This system serves collectors operating in the Fetishistic Collecting Mode (two other possible modes being Systematic and Souvenir). This table is one of the three pieces designed for my final year thesis.

A collection of spoons under the table.

Drawers are opened and the collection is revealed.

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