The architectural Salvage Warehouse in Detroit is – unfortunately – a rather unique place saving everyday objects from destruction. The team resucues windows, banisters, lamps and yes, even toilets, from being destroyed. People who want to restore their homes can do that cheap and in the correct architectural style. 

Seeing these objects being preserved, cataloged and restored puts them in a rare spotlight, as designed objects ready for deliberate use — as opposed to just "stuff".  As if somebody would drag the everyday in a warehouse, ready to be deployed. 

The juxtaposition is not lost on me, that these everyday objects are taken out of context where they are extremely unassuming and put on shelves and categories for you to choose them. But as categroized objects the take over a new kind of normal, indexed, grouped, stored for months. A new kind of normal so to say. 

"Architectural Salvage Yard" a visual interpretation by Michael Berger from 2015 on Fuji Neopan Film.