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What you see is not, by Fernando Brízio for Droog

A cabinet has been reduced to its twodimensional image, leaving only one threedimensional detail intact — an open drawer, perfect for a book or two. A playful combination of function and illusion that saves material too.

"When you need a drawer, it always comes with a cabinet to hold it up. This piece is a clever answer to that, providing the drawer while skipping the cabinet, but still keeping the image of an interesting piece of furniture. It also saves material along the way," says cofounder and director of Droog, Renny Ramakers.

Designer Brízio states: "What one sees is a result of who one is, how one thinks and how one is mentally and physically constituted. I am interested in this type of interaction between the object and the viewer."

Fernando Brízio graduated in Product Design (1996) at Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon, the city where he lives and works. He has developed products for manufacture and for smallscale handmade production, along with exhibitions, scenic, interior and public spaces for companies and organizations such as Droog, Choreographer Rui Horta, Torino World Design Capital, Experimentadesign, Lisbon City Council, Il Coccio, Fábrica Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Galerie Kreo in Paris, amongst others. Brízio is professor and head of the Master in Design Product course at ESAD of Caldas da Rainha. He has taught at ECAL in Lausanne, at HfG in Karlsruhe, and has been a lecturer at numerous conferences and a member of numerous juries in Portugal and abroad. His work has been exhibited and published internationally. Works by Fernando Brízio are included in the collections of the MUDE Museu do Design e da Moda in Lisbon, and in private collections.

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What you see is not, by Fernando Brízio for Droog

A cabinet has been reduced to its two­dimensional image, leaving only one three­dimensional detail intact — an open drawer, perfect for a book or two. A playful combination of function and illusion that saves material too.

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A cabinet has been reduced to its twodimensional image, leaving only one threedimensional detail intact — an open drawer, perfect for a book or two. A playful combination of function and illusion that saves material too.