This project explores how childhood memory can be translated into furniture.

The work draws inspiration from sekretiki ("little secrets"), a game I grew up with in Russia. Children would create miniature hidden worlds beneath the ground, carefully arranging coloured glass, flowers, beads, and fragments of found objects beneath a pane of glass before concealing them beneath soil or snow. Their locations were shared only with trusted friends, transforming ordinary objects into treasures through secrecy, imagination, and ritual.

This table reinterprets that experience of discovery. Glass elements act as viewing portals, revealing objects concealed beneath the surface. Rather than imagined treasures, the hidden artefacts are real: a watch and a necklace, objects carrying their own histories and emotional significance.

The project explores how memory can be embedded within objects and how meaning is shaped through concealment, revelation, and personal narrative. By inviting moments of curiosity and discovery, the piece transforms furniture from a functional object into a vessel for memory, storytelling, and emotional connection.

A study in memory, ritual, and the ways in which value is shaped not by the object itself, but by the stories we attach to it.