A collection of products inspired by the Dutch "Vanitas" still life paintings from the 16th and 17th century. The characteristic type of symbolic still life painting is the one where the symbols of emptiness, time and death were placed on the canvas as a reminder of the vanity of one's earthly life.
Skull/ Vanitas collection chair
materials: wood, polyester, glass-fiber
dimensions: 80 x 80 x 85
year: 2008
skull chair prototype in polyester for © pierre bergé & associés :
Brain/ Vanitas collection footstool
materials: leather, polyurethane foam
dimensions: 50 x 35 x 50
year: 2008
Something dead/ Vanitas collection lampmaterials: leather, steal, carbon-fiber, electricity wire, lamp
dimensions: 40 x 190 x 40
year: 2008
all photos courtesy of vladi rapaport
Vladi Rapaport