Curator, Paola Antonelli It's not for refugees. It's not for displaced people after a catastrophe. It's not for homeless people. It was designed for the ultimate loner, for the person who has decided to detach himself from the world because the world has disappointed him.
The Vigilhome contains a series of tools that are closed within those quite beautiful red carrying cases that look like weapon carrying cases. They're not. Or you might consider these tools weapons for everyday life. Just to give you an idea of the kind of combat material that's inside these carrying cases, you can find a nail claw, a fire extinguisher, a rope and a harpoon, a citrus squeezer and a coffee pot, an egg beater, an oxygen tank, an ice pick, a ‘Friday the 13th’ hockey mask, and a mattress carpet, all enclosed within the foldable walls.
There's a lot of humor and also in a way a lot of sadness in this particular object. Just imagine yourself carrying all these necessities, all of these tools for everyday life on your shoulders. Olivier Peyricot wanted to talk about the danger of progressive isolation, even though there's something really graceful and beautiful about this design, the real power is in its sense of loneliness.