By Jessie Scanlon
Telephones, TVs, shipping containers. Giuseppe Lignano and Ada Tolla have used all of these "existing objects" in their architectural designs. The founders of LOT/EK created their TV-Lite with two eviscerated television sets. Though the sound and channels still work, the piece is intended as a functional light source.
The Italian-born, New York-based designers are already working on TV-Top - a poured-resin tile with an embedded television screen that can be combined to form a tabletop or countertop. "We want to make the TV as much a part of the architecture as a window," says Lignano. "We're trying to use technologies as expressive elements of a space, rather than simply objects shoved into the corner." (For more information call Henry Urbach Architecture, +1 (212) 627 0974.)
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