Cot to Coffin
Rhys Tucker
Bachelor of Design - College of Fine Arts UNSW
www.rhystucker.com
This conceptual piece of furniture explores the ‘lifespan’ of material objects in relation to human life.
Essentially a bed, Cot to Coffin blooms and dies in parallel to mankind’s own life-stages and seeks to create an awareness of our existence in relation to the objects that journey with us.
Cot to Coffin is created within its own service system: the timber resource is planted and grown in parallel to your life. Eventually serving as a final resting vessel at the user’s death, both object and user become a means of regeneration within the same system that birthed it.
Cot to Coffin signifies the interdependent human/nature relationship that exists and asks the user to surrender both the object and themselves to the earth in exchange for its life-long service.
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