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Michael Tomalik: Idol

Inspired by childhood, Michael Tomalik’ Idol gives the user the feeling of being inside a fort, a cage with huge blanket used like padding.

Developing the concept for Idol Michael Tomalik wanted to come back in the time which was for him somehow easier, untouched by design and style.

The plan was to do a trip through his memories and search for an inspiration there. During the remembering he realized that one of the most magic remember was to built different kind of forts and bunkers up. Tomalik took this inspiration with intention to built one again, but for an adult person.

He started with destruction of his old furniture to make kind of transformer. Basically he wanted to do with his old furniture what he was unable to do like a child. Than it turned that he don’t need real fort and hidden place, because an adult already has one, his flat.

Than Tomalik started to work with iron wires and built kind of a cage with huge blanket used like padding. Padding was actually inspired by his granny, which gave him every time unquilted kind of blanket.

The construction was in the beginning lower and wider, more like sofa. Than it becomes to be higher because that size, which is close to the high of adult person, acts more dramatically in an interior. The last step was thinking about items which could cover the inner space. Finally it was offered by the character of the wire structure.