Swedish designer and carpenter Lukas Carpelan created Skåp Henriksberg using repurposed materials from Henriksberg, an industrial area near Stockholm. A cabinet engulfing another cabinet, Skåp Henriksberg puts us in mind of hungry monsters, an apt metaphor for gentrification.

Using alderwood, reclaimed yellow tin, and brass, Lukas Carpelan designed an imperfect cabinet that looks like one cabinet taking over another. This displacement is purposeful.

As Carpelan explains, “The city of Stockholm has decided to demolish Henriksberg to give room for more housing for the ever-growing population of Stockholm. But what happens when there is no more alternative culture and creativity left in a city? Will the city and its people thrive when it is a monoculture? Should you tear down buildings instead of repurposing them?”

The cabinet incorporates a technique known as scagliola that the Romans invented as an inexpensive alternative to marble. Carpelan added a map illustrating the “different industrial areas that disappeared during the gentrification of Stockholm.”

For other work with reclaimed material, see Estúdio Campana’s On the Road.