FILTHY OBJECT : Materious for Tuttobene

Tuttobene is a presentation featured at the Milan Design Week 09, featuring five international and eighteen Dutch design studios, this year. The focus is on ecological and social sustainability in design. Objects on display vary from a cupboard made of domino, a table constructed out of garden hose, lampshades of horsehair to a porcelain computer.
Of note are 2 designs from the house of Materious. One made me want to go out and get one but after reading about the usage of the other object, I really could do with the clock right now! LMFAO

Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man
by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp of Materious.

"Sigmund Freud contends that aggressiveness is a fundamental human instinct whose inhibition is a necessary obligation of social life. These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement--the full-sized, black umbrella--with an element from more manly sword-bearing times. The umbrellas offer brief psychological respite from the dictates of social amiability.


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also designed by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp of Materious

Next is a clock that addresses smokers addiction and their association of time with their next cigarette. But rather than a mere marker of this connection, it can also be used to regulate cigarette consumption. Place the cigarettes in the holes for the desired smoking times, and remove to smoke."