Thank you for all your entries, this giveaway has now closed. Congratulations Iza!
Let me introduce you to Tylko, who came onto my radar at last year’s London Design Festival. Tylko is a Warsaw-based start-up with big ambitions to change the designer furniture industry by letting customers customise pieces to their tastes, wants and needs. Their aim is to provide a bespoke experience, to make it digital and revolutionise how people design, adapt and build unique pieces of furniture.
Tylko has handpicked a roster of well-known and emerging designers who have designed adaptable shelves, tables and kitchenware for them. They have also developed an app through which customers can adapt these designer pieces and visualise them in their own home. Augmented reality allows 3D images of to-scale items to be virtually placed in a real space, but not only that, you’re able to adjust dimensions, colours and sizes, all in the app, until it’s right – how clever is that?
It’s that personal connection that’s the interesting part, allowing you to not just rely on a designer to produce a nice piece of furniture, but to create something that you’ve mulled over and injected a little bit of your own creativity into. It allows you to change the style of the legs of a table, for example, or the spacing of compartments in a bookshelf. It’s a nice alternative to mass production while staying within the safe confines of something you know is already well-designed before you start playing around with it. You can’t really go wrong. It makes design accessible and that little bit playful, as they say:
‘In today’s day and age we feel restricted; restricted from expressing ourselves fully and affordably when it comes to furnishing our personal and professional spaces. We want change. We think it’s time to evolve from mass production and embrace a spectrum of possibilities instead of just one standard. These possibilities will set customers, like ourselves, free, and allow for limitless creation.’
One such design is the Totem Mill, a spice grinder made of dozens of interchangeable wooden modules. It’s designed by Krystian Kowalski, a Warsaw-based designer, who studied at London’s Royal College of Art. His work focuses on finding intelligent, human-centered solutions that go beyond what is obvious.
Each Totem Mill is completely customisable, with seven colours to choose from and different lacquered beech wood bases, middles and tops. You might choose a short hexagonal base with a circle top for example, or a cylindrical mill with two or three tops. Whether your space is clean and monochrome or fun and colourful, there’s something for everyone.
The lovely people at Tylko are giving my readers the chance to WIN a pair of Totem Mills, each worth €49, as shown below. Simply enter via the Rafflecopter.
Entries from Europe only this time. One winner will win a pair of Totem Mills in coral and navy as shown in the image. The winner will be announced 16th May 2016, good luck!
Thank you to Tylko for gifting the pepper mills for the purposes of the giveaway. All images Tylko
