NEW YORK SILVER: THEN AND NOW
FOR MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
An invited exhibition asked contemporary designers “to respond” to historical silver objects from the museum’s collection.
The Nugbox refers to snuff boxes, once a common fashionable accessory. The new object is made of 3D-printed ceramics with a hand-made silver lid, and it offers a different kind of “snuff”.
Porringer, a small silver bowl of the medieval times, is no longer used. We propose a new version of the porringer – now called Pillinger – as a vessel for serving pills and dietary supplements. We envision the Pilinger to become an essential object in daily routines of today’s American familiy.
NUG BOX
PILLINGER
