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

These studies are inspired by sekretiki, a childhood game I grew up with in Russia. Sekretiki (“little secrets”) were small, hidden installations made in the ground. Children would arrange tiny “treasures” (coloured glass, beads, flowers, foil) cover them with a piece of glass, and conceal them beneath snow or soil. Only trusted friends were told where to find them.

It was an opportunity to discover something precious, protected, and quietly shared.

This table reinterprets that ritual. Glass elements reference the “viewport” of sekretiki, but beneath them sit real objects, a watch and a necklace. No longer imagined treasures, but real ones, viewed through a childlike lens.

A study in memory, secrecy, and how objects become precious through the stories we attach to them.