While the built environment is undergoing increasing pressures of globalisation, domestic spaces are becoming more and more homogenised. Consequently, traces of traditional crafts and hand-made production are fading into industrial processes and commodification. Designers Emilie Bordes and Matteo Viviano harvested the shelves of hardware stores, supermarkets and other warehouses, foraging for objects and materials to produce a series of speculative furniture. The pieces emphasise how such spaces for consumption conceal the extractivist nature of ready-to-use modern goods and the commodification of vernacular practices. Vernacogene oscillates between the functional and the absurd, framing a space in tension between traditional crafts knowledge and contemporary industrial processes.