SPIAGGIA

Moving around Europe in the car in which they set up their workshop, the guys were able to work "on the fly" in fields and on beaches, in parking lots and in the mountains. The surrounding world with its nature and traces of human life, which are invariably found even in the most desolate corners of Europe, became the main source of inspiration and the basis for work. That is how the idea of taking materials for their projects from the environment sprang up: trees and stumps discarded by the sea, shells on beaches and buoys from fishing nets. All these “treasures” were given a new life, new shape and new function, and the audience got the oppor- tunity to feel the sea and the sun, salt and sand, stones and earth.

TOUCH WITH EYES is a design duo of Alexander Kanygin and Anna Druzhinina. Traveling Europe in a mobile workshop, they create on the go, inspired by nature and traces of human life. They collect materials from the environment—driftwood, shells, sand molds, buoys, palm branches—and transform them into new forms and functions. Their work lets audiences feel the sea, sun, salt, sand, and earth, blending improvisation with craftsmanship, and connecting design directly to place and memory.