HOT GLASS
It’s no metaphor, no false promise of lust and passion. It’s pornography—but in a wider sense, far from commonplace objectification and ruthless exploitation. Storstake (the XL candlestick), Crystal Lover and Snippa (the vagina) make up a sexual mythology. Amphora, Koh-I-Noor and Sugar Bag are desirable objects.
The glass is combined with materials that carry erotic connotations, such as chains, leather and fur. It’s really not that extreme, but still, it’s hard to talk about. Gender identity, hairy pink openings, shiny black chains, and extravagance. Escalated, disfigured and utopian product porn.
Today’s economically effective, industrial manufacturing processes tend to standardize everything. This creates normative ideals of beauty, and normatively dull desires. The global market owns the contemporary design language—but it doesn’t own you.
Linus Elmes
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Read Åsa Jungnelius in conversation with Katarina Sjögren