The “NOT COMMON THINGS” by COVO enrich the design “dictionary”. Simple and wise objects made of few signs, but capable of being remembered. In the saturated contemporary condition, we find ourselves more and more surrounded by a world of “things”. Material and immaterial things, real and imaginary things, sacred and unholy things, useful and useless things, good and bad things. The Design takes care of these things and does it in many ways. It rethinks, reinvents, copies, covers, plays around or is serious. Or, like COVO tries to do: it observes the world of “things” around us and it tries to imagine new objects which will find their place in the empty spots of our imagination.
COVO’s objects are born from the careful exploration of the material landscape, thinking of our world as a sheet full of signs which too often are confused and loose their meaning. As in children’s drawings, or in prehistoric graffiti, where few lines describe worlds and stories, the “NOT COMMON THINGS” by COVO try to offer simplicity by erasing confusion and focusing on emotion rather than reason. From clothes hangers resembling tree branches, chairs like prominent midriff, seats that embrace, “magic” lamps that raise, photo frames like strings stretched on the wind and soft crystals, our world of “things” becomes a world of simple “signs”. The “NOT COMMON THINGS” by COVO are autonomous objects, capable of relating with all our landscapes and with the story of COVO.
