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Arrested Motion

A study of scent, movement and the body, translated into a family of sculptural perfume flacons.

01

Movement

The body is shaped through movement.

A volume is set turning. The outer surface lags behind the core, gathering on one side and stretching on the other. One frame of that state is held and hardened.

Where the turn is stopped decides what the object becomes. Stopped late, the surplus reaches the ground. Stopped early, it stays at the shoulder.

The pleated shell — One family of lines runs from the foot to the shoulder.

02

Flacons

A teardrop flacon in finely ribbed ivory, collared in gold and capped with carved fan and leaf forms. Nine designs follow one rule: the fold that makes the body also makes the shoulder and the stopper.

01/ 09Collar

Collar. The fold leaves the body and opens as a collar at the shoulder.

Shoulder. A teardrop body with the pleat carried around to one side.

Crest. A pierced crest curls over the neck and doubles the height.

Canopy. The stopper is drawn up on a thin stem and opens into a canopy.

Plinth. The flacon set on a disc, the backdrop folded into a single blade.

Wings. Two pleated wings open away from the body on either side.

Fans. Layered fans stand behind the body, each one at a different radius.

Torsion. The whole body twisted in one move, with no crown to balance it.

Radial. A conical body read against a single radial fan.

The fold leaves the body and opens as a collar at the shoulder.

03

Explorations

Eight variants drawn from the same plan. Each one stops the turn at a different height, and the pleated shell resolves the surplus differently: held close to the body, or carried out until it reaches the ground.

The neck and stopper stay constant across the set. Only the body and the reach of the crown change, which is what makes the differences legible.

Concept variant, body upright, pleats vertical

Concept variant, body swung left, skirt beginning to open

Concept variant, skirt sweeping wide, crown thrown clear of the body

Concept variant, flare carried low to the ground

Concept variant, body closed, branch reaching sideways

Concept variant, symmetrical body, pleats running straight

Concept variant, the turn carried through to the base

Concept variant, the skirt folding back on itself

04

In the Round

01

Rotation

One turn generates the body. Every pleat records the same movement, taken at a different depth.

02

Displacement

Where the turn runs deepest the shell leaves the axis, and the object gives up its symmetry.

03

Arrest

The movement is stopped rather than slowed. What is left standing is the shape of the stop.

05Design Logic

01

Rotation

One continuous turn generates the whole body.

02

Surface

Pleats hold the turn. Smooth areas record where it stopped.

03

Closure

Turned timber and polished metal mark the point of touch.

04

Asymmetry

There is no single front. The object has to be walked around.

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06

Material

Pleated ceramic surface

Ivory ceramic

A satin bisque that holds shadow instead of highlight.

Turned timber stopper

Warm timber

Turned, and the only part warm to the hand before it is warm from it.

Brass collar

Polished brass

At every junction, where two materials have to meet.

Gilded armature with dried blossom

Dried blossom

A gilded armature carrying the one part never turned, cast or glazed.

The fragrance moves on. The bottle remains, holding the shape of what has passed.

Credits

Project

Arrested Motion

Category

Functional Design

Type

Independent Study

Year

2026

Design and creative direction

Fulin Sezgin

Product design

Fulin Sezgin

3D and visual development

Fulin Sezgin

Self initiated. Concept development, not prototyped.

COLOPHON

COLOPHON

I believe the most memorable spaces are the ones people continue to feel long after they've left.

I believe the most memorable spaces are the ones people continue to feel long after they've left.

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