Wright Auction

Reanimate, recuperate, reintroduce, rehabilitate, recycle, restore, rethink, dress, cure…the designer becomes the objects’ doctor and uses his knowledge to increase the life expectancy of rejected pieces of furniture. The aim is not to restore (a practice which seeks to reestablish something to its original state) nor to repair (an activity which involves utilizing basic methods to prolong life) nor transforming (changing the use of) but to reeducate furniture (by systemizing the intervention). These doctor designers use deterioration, weakness and alterations as a mean to create. Their surgical operation gives back to the patient its initial function, and the perception of products. This new subject which makes the object central to his worries, may cause the beginning of a true system of production. The cured object thus finds its place within its habitat and regains its right to live. This visit to the first hospital for furniture enables you to discover atypical medicine which in turn may inspire you to treat your own furniture.

Other than being a group of young professionals in the field of design, we are a group of friends who share the same passion for industrial creation, through our different projects carried out throughout the year. This time, we have decided to get together around a common interest for recuperation. Gleaners, bargain hunters, aesthetes, we are permanently [in search of curiosities] of all kinds, because we like unusual [or simply beautiful production. It is around this love for impure objects, full of stories, however too often forgotten, that was built our old furniture rehab project, in partnership with French Humanitarian aid (Le Secours Populaire Français).

Réanim is first of all a questioning of the future of our consumer products. What can be done concerning the proliferation of products which have financial means? The endangerment of natural resources, the increase of pollution due to production, are painful facts, the reason why we suggest a future for these doomed objects. Réanim offers a rebirth to dead furniture. Furniture is a patrimonial good, passed on from generation to generation, protected and kept in order to make them live across time. Today it’s status changes and becomes a specific consumer product. The furniture industry has gone from [an] equipment market to a renewal market, and this remarkable change is to be considered in the conception process. How can an object’s second life exist [reintroduced to the] sales systems? RÉANIM and its furniture rises…

—Studio 5.5