Non Fiction Design Collective

May 25, 2009

One of the most interesting chandeliers for me at ICFF this year was by a company called Non Fiction Design Collective, based in Ohio. Ohio…really? I have never been to Ohio so I have no idea why I am surprised but I am, and pleasantly so. The chandelier that fascinated me was made out of rats. They take real freeze-dried rats and mold them and then enlarge the mold to make these rats just a little more…well, scary. They are then cast in porcelain. They actually have cute little faces and the chandelier was not at all scary for me. What made it fun was the addition of the little berries in their mouths and the red added a whimsical touch. I am planning to use this over a sink in a powder room for my client Paige who was as enchanted as I was.

Posted by Ghislaine Viñas on May 25, 2009 | Comments (2)

Industries: Lighting

July 2, 2009

In response to: Non Fiction Design Collective
This is art? commented:

Where do you think they got the freeze-dried moulds for these rats with 'cute little faces', as you so condescendingly put it? They didn't drop out of the sky, nor do I think they picked up the putrefying corpses of rats that had already died. I think it's disgusting that designers can exploit animals in such a way and call it art. I find it all the more disappointing that it is endorsed on this blog. I hope PETA give them hell.

June 11, 2009

In response to: Non Fiction Design Collective
arino commented:

whimsical? that's sick...