I recently traveled to Toronto for the 2009 Interior Design Show. Besides being a great way to spot upcoming trends in colors, textures and styles, I also noticed how packages and package design played a role.
The first example was as student project from the Ryerson University’s School of Interior Design called NAPitat (shown above). Created from the remnants of large cardboard boxes and transformed into a dual purpose workstation and napping area (which one student gladly demonstrated for me), this piece struck me as not only reusing packaging but also impressed me with the intricate “dielines” that the students developed to create a piece that fit together without any fasteners. (168 hand cut pieces to be exact)
The next, and most direct, example of packaging used in interior design was this piece using silver upside-down bottle shaped feet. Now Randy can have bottle-footed furniture in his bottle shaped houses.
The remaining examples were packages chosen for their color and aesthetic qualities to help accent the displays, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. (Of course, Method had an appearance) Or perhaps they were suggestions of the preferred packages of Canandian interior designers, as if to say to be chic in the land of hockey and the mounted police, one simply must have (see photos) in one’s home.
Daniel Wangelin
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