The Uniphant

Storage furniture
In collaboration with Uni

Inheritability is about making products that have a longer life cycle and that last for generations. An inheritable artefact can be passed on from brother to sister, from cousin to neighbour, from adult to child. This is a piece of storage furniture for children, which can stay with them throughout their life. The stylized elephant fits well into both a child and an adult room. The quality, function, and form of the product imbue it with meaning and increased emotional value.

An important is the furnitures mobility. My work has been to make the elephant’s ear more flexible and playful, something that the children can take with them to other rooms in the home, to sit on, to store their things in and also be able to use the empty space when the elephant ear is out of the furniture. There are also other play signals in the details, like in the elephant’s legs that follows when you open the doors of the furniture making the space in between playable. Or the surprise of the orange color in the elephant’s belly and of course the elephant’s ear which is a box to interact with. The box also gives more opportunities to use the furniture depending on needs and age, which increases its heritability.