Fill In The Cat. Negative Space Furnishings from NEL.

Fill In The Cat furniture

I’d already posted about their dog-like furniture (Pack of Dogs teak shelves) when I spotted this project by NEL, the collective of Mexican designers. A study in negative space, Fill In The Cat consists of chairs, shelves and ottomans from which three characters have been removed from large white blocks.

Fill In The Cat Furniture

Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here

The resulting emptiness is filled with the user’s belongings and through this action the silhouettes’ meaning shifts. The pieces suggest a continuous play between interaction and representation, where daily use generates a continuously changing story: a cat that reads Italo Calvino, a book filled with coins, a living room where birds come to eat the cake’s crumbles…

Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here
Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here
Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here
Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here
Fill In The Cat Furniture on if it's hip, it's here

FILL IN THE CAT
Year: 2006
Participants: Ricardo Casas, Héctor Esrawe, Emiliano Godoy, Cecilia León de la Barra, Óscar Núñez

About NEL
NEL (whic is now Pirwi)  is a platform for experimentation formed by an evolving collective of Mexican designers. The collective, founded in 2004, serves as a channel tocreate and exhibit projects that focus on the conceptual and playful side of design. The organic nature of the collective allows for an ever changing pool of designers, which in turn generates a wide variety of projects that range from political statements to playful storytelling or aesthetic explorations.

The members of NEL are Ricardo Casas (1979), Alejandro Castro (1983), Héctor Esrawe (1968), Emiliano Godoy (1974) and Cecilia León de la Barra (1975).

UPDATE 2015: NEL is no longer but now has become a part of Pirwi

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