Sleep soundly and relaxing on a weapon of war. It seems like a joke or a paradox, but it is reality, thanks to the collection of furniture and furnishing accessories proposed by one of the most famous Estonian sculptors, Mati Karmin, starting from an undoubtedly original raw material: naval bombs. The creative recycling proposal put forward by Karmin is based on a concept of great strength and significance: transforming objects created to be instruments of destruction and death into functional, aesthetically valuable accessories, which can enrich and make homes and apartments truly unique.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Sleep soundly and relaxing on a 'weapon from war. It seems like a joke or a paradox, and instead it is reality, thanks tocollection of furniture and furnishing accessories proposed by one of the most famous Estonian sculptors, Mati Karmin, starting from an undoubtedly original raw material: naval bombs. The proposal of creative recycling advanced by Karmin is based on a concept of great strength and significance: transform objects born to be instruments of destruction and death into functional accessories, aesthetically valuable, which can enrich and make homes and apartments truly unique.
Of course, the results of this "conceptual metamorphosis" may or may not meet our taste - not everyone, in fact, would like to sleep in a bed made from the corroded and oxidized metal of an "old" bomb and which recalls very clearly, in the lines and in the style, its military origin - but the operation performed by Karmin is really interesting.
The collection includes stoves, armchairs, cots, baby carriages, beds, aquariums and various other complements and accessories with which to fill and decorate the interiors of our homes. At the base of this unusual furnishing solution there are three types of bombs - two models made in Russia at the turn of the 90s and 1s and used to hit enemy submarines and a Russian and German-made model dating back to the XNUMXs - about XNUMX cm in diameter and weighing about XNUMX ton.
The 5-year-old Estonian sculptor conceived the idea of a furniture collection based on what remains of naval bombs about XNUMX years ago, after a walk along the coast of the small isola di Naissaar, north-west of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Until the early XNUMXs, the island had been an important one Soviet military outpost: when they abandoned the base, the Soviet soldiers destroyed all the arsenal of marine bombs, leaving their remains and casings on the beach.
Just from that bleak sight and from the desire to Karmin to create, experiment and dare is born MarineMine, Mine Supplies, a collection of functional furnishings that evokes the Estonian history of the second half of the twentieth century, while also offering, at the same time, a concrete and surprising example of potential of recovery and recycling of materials
Lisa Vagnozzi
