The Dwell 24: Panorammma

It’s kind of gross: a normal pitcher, like you would pour something out of, but made from silicone supported by a sterile-looking stainless steel brace. It’s pink, pliant, and looks a little moist, like soft tissue or an excised internal organ—as if it went straight from the operating table to the tea service. The peculiar, slightly disturbing container is part of a series called Soft Vessels by Mexico City designer Maika Palazuelos, who calls her studio Panorammma. Trained as a painter, Palazuelos switched to designing furniture, lighting, and tabletop objects shortly after finishing her undergraduate degree in painting at RISD. She wanted to go in a more explicitly commercial direction than the art world allowed, she says, and many of her objects would fit well in the right living room, but they all have something of the pitcher’s uncanny corporality.