Peter J Pless exibited new prototypes at the renowned 2010 Salone Satellite, an exhibition of select young international designers. In this exhibition, Pless has developed designs that exemplify a balance of concept, craft and expression within a theme of “Spaces”. The collection merges a variety of categories of domestic objects, technology and lifestyle into products that are distilled down to their essential function while defining new interactions, experiences and elegance.
The conceptual framework “Spaces” defines the significance of certain products that people have direct contact with on a day-to-day basis. These “Spaces” are broken into four categories, intimate, personal, social and public, that represent an individual’s possessions in relation to emotional and sensory values. These four categories offer a significant range of complexity. At the intimate level, objects maintain a more emotional bond where the personality of the individual is truly formed. As one traverses outward from the intimate category, an individual’s perceived identity changes through the personal, social and public sectors where at each level true identity recedes and becomes more generalized and superficial.
