Also presented during Salone was a tablecloth: The cotton is grown, spun, and dyed all by hand in the north of Ivory Coast. It is then woven on a pre-industrial loom, by a weaver I met during my research into textiles and different weaving techniques.
In this work, using various hand-stitching techniques, folds, and drapings, the strips are recomposed into a new surface that recalls both a ceremonial textile and a flag.
From the threads to the assembly, the piece is made entirely by hand by the weaver, Ibrahim, and myself, as a meditation on time, gesture, and cultural transmission. 🪡🪡🪡🪡🪡
Podium - Edition 02 of @missing.objects during @milan.design.week
Based on a modular room-divider structure, Podium functions as a tool wall offering a stage for overlooked items.
Attachments for a tablecloth, vases, a felt pinboard and a book stand.
175 × 63 × 32 cm
Polished stainless steel, iroko, hand blown glass and wool felt.
Another theatre scene, printed using monoprint and drypoint. Handmade frame in Sapele with silver leaf on pear wood, silk and antique gros grain with pins💡💡💡💡💡
Sketchbook pages of the renovation of a duplex - The first floor plan was completely redesigned. The existing Victorian cellular layout gave way to a plan centred on a central service core containing the kitchen, utility and a shower room split in two. It acts as a spatial threshold, separating and structuring the surrounding programmes.
Additional photos during the client’s move-in and during construction - bespoke iroko and steel kitchen, the upper floor music studio in dark carmine and the split bathroom during tiling
New custom piece for Valerie in stained iroko. Earlier this year, I was commissionned to design a bar cabinet to store drinks but with a surface to display framed family photographs. Raised off the ground the cabinet has four doors, each marked with hundreds of hand-carved, fingerprint-like grooves.
4 HANDS CABINET
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4 Hands Cabinet is a floor-standing glass cabinet that reimagines familiar forms and expectations. By positioning the cabinet on the floor and extending its height, the design creates a sense of emptiness, suggesting the absence of objects typically displayed—glassware, food, or clothing. Often concealed or overlooked in its usual context, a single lightbulb becomes the sole item inside the cabinet, going beyond its practical nature and transforming into an object of intrigue. The glass panels are coated in white gold, adding a reflective quality that projects light into the room.
4 Hands Cabinet blurs the line between functional and decorative, prompting a reconsideration of the meaning of presence and absence in everyday objects.
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Ylam Deme and Eduard Pascual-Ribas
H 150 x L 34 x W 34 cm 
Glass, White Gold, Aluminium
2025
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Ylam Deme
is a London-based architect and artist working across various media and scales. Her work explores memory and its reinterpretation, creating pieces ranging from theater scenes with etchings to furniture and architectural spaces. She has exhibited at events such as London Design Week 2024 and the London Art Fair 2025.
Eduard Pascual Ribas
is a designer based in London and Barcelona. His practice focuses on simplicity through materials and processes, producing minimalist design pieces and architecture. He works on both commercial and residential architecture, combining material explorations, precision and functionality
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Visit our website for more information: missing-objects.com
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@ylamdm@eduardpascualribas
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Photographed by @lawlup
