An object that explores the radical relationship between productivity and rest.
An office desk transforms into a modular object: a project by German designer Jannis Zell that explores the complex relationship between productivity and rest.
“Polyurethane Dreams” is a project by German designer Jannis Zell, born from a residency program that brought him to Turin for two months at the Circolo del Design — a creative platform and cultural center in Turin that promotes experimentation and research in contemporary design.
“Polyurethane Dreams” is an ambiguous and transformable object: an office desk that can be reassembled into a bed. Made from recycled polyurethane foam, sourced from industrial production waste, this modular object represents a departure from the production methods of contemporary design, while also counteracting the more frantic aspects of today’s society.
With this contribution, Zell invites us to view rest not only as a necessary act but as a radical one in a society that demands hyper-productivity both at work and at home. In these homes, the line between work time and rest time has increasingly blurred, where a bed increasingly resembles a desk, and vice versa.