Andu Masebo gives new life to an old Alfa Romeo, creating playful furniture, on show at the V&A South Kensington during London Design Festival (and until 15 October 2023)
, cars are a 'rich territory' of stories. The UK capital’s recent expansion of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone , charging non-compliant cars a fee to drive on the roads, has prompted fierce debates, with cars condemned as destroyers of the environment or exalted as vehicles of freedom. But for Masebo it is the stories cars evince that fascinate him most. As part of
'I wanted to take those stories and use them as a starting point or a reason to design objects and furniture that would resonate somehow with what the car used to mean,' he says. Not all of the owners’ stories were so profound, but Masebo enjoys exploring the banal and the cheeky as much as the heart-rending.
Masebo found the car online, having searched for cars that had failed their MOTs and were destined to be scrapped . Although repurposing waste material is high on the design world’s agenda, Masebo points out that sustainability was not the driving force behind the project.
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