SYBARIS

Sybaris is an experimental project by the students of Aalto University’s Design department. With the working title “luxury”, the teams have studied “passion” and “pleasure”.

Sybaris is an ancient Greek city where the inhabitants, Sybarites were known for their pursuit of opulent luxury and pleasure seeking. Sybarite creates a world that exists between the boundaries of art and design and explore pleasure and luxury in our times. One-off objects are created with personal interpretations of sensual pleasure, hapticity and primitive sensuality. Objects of desire are handcrafted and materialised from various explorations of contemporary pleasures.

The project was exhibited during the Helsinki Design Week 2015.