A valuable vault

Vault is one of the latest projects by designer Laurens Manders. He explains:

- In this project I am trying to find out what value really is, by questioning myself about which ´things´ are of real value to me. I found out that for me most of it is about family, friendship and love. Those are things that, as much as you want, you can´t really put in a safe. Only ´things´ that remind you about your value can be kept safe. This is why there are only five small drawers in the vault, in which you can put photos, letters and tiny objects. Realizing that some ´objects that carry emotion´ are even smaller or much larger, the vault project will be continued.

The vault´s appearance is inspired by the mineral pyrite, also known as fool´s gold. Because of its resemblance to gold pyrite is often mistaken to be highly valuable being actually almost worthless. This now resembles the designer's vision of value. You can steal the vault and/or it´s ´valuable´ contents but you will find out that it's of no value to you.

The vault is made in steal and nut wood.