Mess Ensemble

Mess Ensemble reimagines the everyday act of draping clothes over a chair as an exploration of furniture, sculpture, and personal expression. Inspired by familiar domestic habits, this project embraces "mess" as a productive dynamic that evolves with interaction, rather than disorder. Comprising three freestanding frames—low, middle, and high—it offers flexible configurations, from compact sculptures to extended room dividers. Users are invited to act as co-authors, engaging freely by tossing or arranging garments to elevate the act of hanging garments into a sculptural composition.

This work has won 2024 Muse Design Awards Silver and 2025 Core77 Design Awards runner up.


Steel

2024

Inspired by the familiar sight of chairs adorned with clothes in domestic settings, my aim is to create a design that serves as an alternative to the chair. This design encourages users to either casually toss their clothes onto the rack without the need for precise arrangement or meticulously hang them to elevate the act of cloth placement into a sculptural gesture.

Project Intension

Wire studies. I initially explored intricate, single-piece sculptural designs before transitioning to multiple simpler forms to enhance the concept of customization of individuals.

Exploration of shapes, arrangement and line weight in Rhino.

Mess Ensemble are composed with three simple and abstract free standing forms: low, middle and tall. Those heights satisfy different hanging needs and offer users extensive compositional options.

The three components can be arranged and combined in any configuration: vertically, horizontally, connected, or individually placed. They have the potential to create a vertical hanging sculpture with a compact square footprint, or transform into a linear structure serving as a room divider, with cloth draped over them.

Mess ensemble in interior setting. Their versatility allows for endless combinations to suit various interior settings and individual preferences, ensuring they seamlessly integrate without dominating the space with their own distinct personalities.

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