Designers are constantly trying to change the world, with better designs in every field. What inspires the designer might be something rather insignificant for the laymen, like a piece of crumpled paper or a piece of plastic on the wall.

 

Hungarian design brand Sekhina has created a series of concrete light switches and plug sockets, a rather beautiful alternative to the plastic ones that has been around for too long. Inspiration struck founder Gábor Kasza, during  the search for a similar product in the industry, wasn’t something available in the market.

 

 

Plastic is unfortunately a convenient option to consider when it comes to designing half of the things in the world. Decades of convenience has to led global warming. waters rising and other serious environmental issues. Not to mention, in case of sockets and switches, plastic could easily turn these to the tackiest thing in your house. Think about the sleek concrete switches on your walls, simplicity could not be more elegant.

 

“A piece of plastic on the wall can be bizarre, sometimes quite terrible,” Gábor Kasza, founder of Sekhina explains, “Interior designers very often try to hide switches and sockets as they blunt the general aesthetics of their work, but they’re functional useful objects.”

 “How many times a day do you touch light switches? Physical contact with objects has physical affects on our body and consequently to our soul. If you feel it is better to wear a natural silk scarf than a nylon one, prefer to use glass in contrast to a plastic cup and you can feel the difference between the perfume off flowers compared to a cheap toilet fragrance, then surely you will appreciate our products. If we have to search for a long time to find them and posture freaky poses to use them – that’s not too comfortable. The answer is concrete.“