penates

Penates is a household shrine for the few things you actually keep. Seven niches, settled once and for all. You place the cabinet where you want it, in augmented reality, against a wall or on a corner of a desk, and you fill it with objects you scanned or photographed yourself. There is no catalogue to choose from, and no way to add an eighth niche. When all seven are taken, placing something new means taking something out. That constraint is the whole design. A shelf that holds everything selects nothing. HOW IT WORKS Scan an object in three dimensions with guided capture. Everything is computed on the device, and the photographs are erased once the model is made. Or import a USDZ file you already have. It is brought down to the size of a niche automatically, however large it was. Or mount a photograph on a panel, for what a 3D scan cannot see: glass, chrome, matte black, anything…