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SAQQARAH

Saqqarah is a ladder made from thermolaqued steel tubing in the style of a traditional bicycle. Its rungs are covered with leather handlebar tape commonly used on racing bikes. However, despite its sporty appearance, this ladder was designed for moments when it is at rest.

Starting from the observation that the majority of the time, a ladder is waiting against a wall or hanging, I chose to give it a shape that seems guided by its function but whose precise use appears uncertain. Is it a ladder, a rescue object, a roof rack for an automobile? In the manner of a deliberate ready-made, this intentional ambiguity seemingly decontextualizes the object to enhance its plastic qualities. It appears to be removed from its original milieu and placed in the domestic space solely for its sculptural value.

Its shape, while not anthropomorphic, appears capable of containing a human, connecting this object with another type of artifact at rest: the Egyptian sarcophagus. One cannot help but see in the rhythms of the rungs and the leather tape bands the subtle evocation of the mummy it could have contained. This dual evocation of the athletic and the sacred, the ancient and the contemporary, completes the mystery surrounding the origin of this object.

Limited edition by Galerie kreo.

Year : 2023
Materials : Steel / Leather / Rubber

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© Jean Baptiste Fastrez | 2023

design & dev : Atelier Yvon

STYX

Designed around a Thai abalone, over-fished for its flesh in Asia, STYX symbolically welcomes its precious mother-of-pearl, which has been left behind, in a specially imagined cockpit to help it cross the river of the same name. STYX is a sculpture with no other object than the formal response it gives to the fiction proposed to it.

Styx takes its name from the river which, in Greek mythology, carries souls in a boat to reach the world of the dead. Here the soul is represented by a shell, the abalone. Its iridescent shell is placed on a ceramic vessel reminiscent of fish, sharks, aircraft or racing boats. By borrowing as much from the formal language of the animal world as from that of technique, STYX mixes the ritual and the athlete to muddy the waters and give everyone free rein to their imagination. Abalone, consumed on many coasts for its meat, is a species in decline in certain areas of the globe. By evoking the funeral ritual of this simple shell, STYX shows respect for the value of life in all its forms. To symbolize the desirable end of the animal’s overfishing, the object will only be produced in 49 copies. 

STYX is an object with a narrative and decorative function. You can hang it on the wall or put it on a piece of furniture. Designed by a designer for an object publishing house, its existence raises questions. Is it a sculpture? Is it a reduced model? The object frees itself from the border between design and art and reaffirms as Ettore Sottsass said that «design is above all a way of discussing life».

Limited edition of 49 copies per
colour, numbered and signed

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