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An alternate look at mundane objects
A lounge chair with resin infused in its cracks; a wooden standing lamp with a wine bucket as its lampshade; a dining chair with metal legs and attached trolley wheels. Creative project ReaR Window’s curiously-designed furniture veers between functional products and art objects.
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A phantom leg on a barstool in ReaR Window's workshop is imperceptible at first glance. (JP/Courtesy of Rear Window/Another Business/Friesnsauce)
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o:p>The familiarity of objects we encounter everyday conceals the design process the objects have been through. While we often take the thought process behind products for granted, ReaR Window imagines an alternate approach, where the deliberateness of every design decision is laid bare.
Described as an open-ended discourse, ReaR Window is a continuous project founded by twin brothers, architect Rama and interior designer Romy Dwiwahyu (25). The practice is a creative musing on objects familiar to their day-to-day practice – a means to explore their disciplines further. The duo’s first experiments took the form of a furniture refurbishment project, where they retrofitted used or abandoned furniture with parts that seem somewhat alien. The project found a kinship with gallery and micro publishers (publishers of a niche market) Friesnsauce and Another Business, which organized ReaR Window’s first exhibition in Bandung.
That exhibition took place at the shared area of The House Tour Hotel and Touche Shop in Cimanuk. Running from February 19th to March 5th, the exhibition showcased the first range of ReaR Window’s works. Laid out in the exhibition space was furniture highlighted against striking orange backdrops. The event also saw the release of Another Publication’s zine: We Love Prints Issue 02: ReaR Window, which features a conversation with ReaR Window on the approach and thought process behind their practice.
The three entities involved agree that, through the exhibition, they are riding the same momentum—a zeitgeist of sorts in which they found kinship. Artist and designer Haqiqy Zahwa (23), the cofounder of Friesnsauce, explained that the underlying spirit he felt connecting them was a fatigue of the late-aughts urban development experience, or, as he puts it, “the industrial decay of an inner-city fantasy.” The exhibition, he said, was a way to circulate these ideas in public.
Multidisciplinary designer Ari Triawan (23), Haqiqy’s partner in Friesnsauce and founder of Another Business, expressed similar sentiment. Through Another Business, the ideas behind ReaR Window’s works and their common concerns are conveyed in printed form.
A series of interventions
