Chew by Chu

technical description

Remix of anonymous household objects, as mass produced tupperware, reassembled with slow processes, by hand. Pop and fluorescent colours, antithetical materials: silicone, plexiglass, elastic and leather, engineered together with hand stitching and rivets.

Size 295x210x15mm, 696 gr., 2020.

concept

How can people associate their bodies with anonymous articles such as a vegetable peeler, a juicer or a funnel? Through visionary and colourful pop accessories, designer Clara Chu re-imagined the textures of edibles by re-appropriating mundane kitchenware and mixing mass production with the hand-crafted. Her collection emerged from her ambition to transform an everyday object like Tupperware. She wanted to re-engineer this iconic, repeatedly casted lunch box into a form of fashion accessory. Bringing together traditional leather bag-making techniques and transforming common household objects like water bottles, ice-cube trays and jar openers in a playful and eccentric interpretation.

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