For starters, Kamprani’s products help appreciate the beauty and utility of the products we take for granted, without sparing a moment to appreciate the ingenuity of their design. A spoon, for instance – one of the simplest of objects embedded in our psyche since early childhood years – is now looked at with renewed respect for its design!

The visually stunning products, seem quirky at first sight – and terribly wrong, just a few moments later; growing more and more annoying over time! Yet, the humour in each of these distorted objects cannot and should not be missed! As Kamprani herself explains: “My goal is to deconstruct the invisible design language of simple everyday objects and tweak their fundamental properties in order to surprise you and make you laugh.” 

“The intent is to re-design useful objects making them uncomfortable but usable and maintain the semiotics of the original item,” she adds. Uncomfortable – indeed they are; usable – doubtful enough. But this tinkering around with the fundamental, unspoken principles of design besides being surprising and humorous, also reveals the designer’s own creative genius. It enables us to “appreciate the complexity and depth of interactions with the simplest of objects around us.”

An inversely curved chair, champagne glasses designed in the form of a candelabra, mugs with entwined ears, a staxked-up fork, a slipper spoon, a gardening can with a turned-around spout...and many more such whacky interpretations of objects – keep coming from the design studio of Katerina Kamprani! 

Disarming in their dysfunctionality, and candidly confronting the norms - Katerina's creations seamlessly transcend the boundaries of art and design, beauty and utility, demand and decoration.