A grid offers structure: framework, method, a way to read an object. Swimmingpool builds on that principle. Through the 32×32 mm unit, the piece gains internal coherence—everything aligns to the same measure.
But it is the colour that makes it what it is. The pool association doesn’t come from function; it arrives as a flash of recognition—pool blue, that unmistakable Swimmingpool blue. In combination with the grid, colour generates context. It creates connections where none should exist, and turns an everyday cultural place into a piece of furniture.
At first glance, Swimmingpool reads like a sculpture: a calm, untouched front—closed, almost indifferent. Only on the second look does it reveal its logic: the drawers are hidden on the sides. Unexpectedly, untypically, the front remains unbroken while the object opens laterally. On each side, two drawers can be pulled out. That delay in understanding sharpens the tension: what is this object supposed to be?
Swimmingpool is an interpretation of a place inside a cabinet—an idea that makes no practical sense, and exactly for that reason becomes an exercise in free thinking: precise in its system, and provocative in its presence.
