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TOUCH WITH EYES

TOUCH WITH EYES

Touch With Eyes is the design duo of Alexander Kanygin and Anna Druzhinina. Their practice developed through travel across Europe, with a workshop installed in their car. Working in fields, on beaches and in the mountains brought them into direct contact with materials left by weather, tides and human activity. Trees washed ashore, shells gathered on beaches and buoys recovered from fishing nets became the starting points for furniture, lighting and objects. Rather than conceal these origins, the duo preserves the marks and irregularities that give each fragment its particular character.

The coastline provides both material and observation. Long walks along deserted Adriatic beaches informed Frutti di Mare, a collection that gives shells new functions while retaining their curves, textures and pearly interiors. Light held inside these natural forms reveals details that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
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Their wooden pieces follow a similarly direct approach. Burnt Black stools and coffee tables use sea-washed wood, worked by hand and finished with fire, oil and wax. Other seats and tables begin with trees fallen during storms. Metal frameworks support found wood or carry repeated shells and buoys, creating open structures that leave the materials visible. The catalogue includes wall panels with curved reliefs in aluminium and burnt plywood, alongside chairs, stools and lamps. Their press kit documents the Spiaggia collection at Alcova in Milan in 2024 and Frutti di Mare for the 2025 edition, extending an ongoing exploration of gathered materials and practical objects. Each assembly keeps its source material legible through use.

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