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Designers Lucas Maassen and Alexandre Humbert have made a series of photo collages of established creatives impersonating furniture and household items.
Called The Living Room, the Maassen and Humbert conceived the project and took pictures of the 187 architects, designers and curators involved during Dutch Design Week last year. Maassen and Humbert arranged the resulting 148 images of objects enacted by creatives, on their own and in groups, into collages in which people's bodies furnish the room. These include Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen acting as a teapot, curator Rossana Orlandi pretending to be a door, creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven Joseph Grima as a rocking chair, designer Jan Boelen being a carpet, and Atelier NL as two plants. The...