16 February 2007
Smoke Like a Chimney is one of those one in a million ideas that inspire me to practice design. It’s a high concept ashtray made in white porcelain. Here’s the concept: the ashtray has a cover over where the cigarette is placed. This cover is an abstracted version of a human lung. When the cigarette is placed in the ashtray smoke rises up and pours out of the end of the abstracted lung tubes always reminding the user of just how much smoke is rising through his or her lungs. So the piece really succeeds on several levels. Not only is at beautiful piece of porcelain showing strong technical prowess, but it’s also an affective demonstration of the beauty of smoke…or the perils of smoking.
Unfortunately, the piece is hard to find in the U.S., at least.
Object: Smoke Like a Chimney Ashtray
Designer: Andersson Frida and James Steiner
Year: 2006
URL: www.industreal.it
Lust Factor: Hot
Categories: Ceramics | Houswares | Lust Factor: Hot | White
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March 28th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
[...] Sometimes I wonder how it’s possible that I’m able to feature two lung ashtrays in such a short period of time. The first lung ashtray I saw was by an extremely adept Italian design firm called industreal with their smoke like a chimney ashtray. Now, here I am with a lung ashtray by Finding Cheska. I’m not sure what my obsession with lung ashtrays is, but I am a smoker in my mid-thirties with a family. I really only have maybe one a day, but cigarettes still linger in my consciousness. The truth is, unlike the Smoke Like a Chimney ashtray which is designed to make me think of quitting in a profound way, the lung ashtray makes me think of pouring batter into it and making a really cool upside-down cake! What the heck, you say? Just look at this piece of ceramic. When you turn your cake over after using the lung ashtray, your cake will be left with these beautiful vein patterns which could then be filled with a raspberry sauce. This could be a fun party cake for Halloween or as a get well cake for anyone who has recently had a lung removed. [...]