Fragment Table
Four metal brackets, four wooden rods, four wooden sections, four plastic tracks, four plastic plugs and a table top – these fragments interlock one after another to form a table. Each individual component is employed in accordance with its particular qualities and stands in a carefully designed connection to the next one. Each individual part is thus accorded the same importance as the overall product as is the relationship between them
Hook up
18 hooks wind their way like a climber around a wooden rod that is inserted into a cross-shaped base. The Hook-up coat stand not only saves space but also material: As the basic components have a thread they also serve as the connecting elements. The hooks are screwed into the rod, and the latter is inserted into the base.
Holz
Various puzzles are created by dividing up a tree vertically and horizontally: Flat segments from the trunk are broken up into irregular fragments, sections of branches are sawn into slices. The puzzle consists in putting the pieces back together to make a whole. The puzzle series Holz (Wood) directs the reconstructor’s attention to the concise forms and lines of the material itself. A collaboration between Thomas Schnur, Paul Bellila and the French design label USIN-e (Remi Bouhaniche und Amaury Poudray).
Rubber Table
The drain or toilet plunger is an item, which, though it receives little attention, is actually extremely useful. Rubber Table adopts its idiosyncratic aesthetics and transfers them to a new environment. The rubber plunger has become a table leg – setting in motion a new way of looking at this ambivalent object. Manufacturing it from dyed foam rubber preserves the color and the feel of the original object.
Sheet Metal Cabinet
The Sheet Metal Cabinet plays with the striking features of two everyday items. One of these is the metal locker with its typical ventilation slits, the other, the frame of a trestle table. What they have in common is the fact that they are made of bent sheet metal. The Sheet Metal Cabinet adopts their character, optimizes their proportions and finally transfers both elements to a new product.
Holzbank
Primarily in forests and villages, conventional wooden benches are a common phenomenon. Crafted from untreated tree trunks, every one of them is handmade and unique. Inspired by the honesty and simplicity of this man-made object, this is a bench that in terms of appearance, shape and materials retains the fundamental qualities of the traditional wooden bench. An optimized, standardized processing technique reinterprets the wooden bench and gives it access to the urban environment.
Cola Sugar Glass
Alcohol, sugar, caffeine, nicotine: ingredients we consume more or less consciously to influence our sense of well-being. And often we do not realize how much we consume where or when; at least we seldom think about it. Coke Sugar Glass quantifies what most people know, but prefer to ignore.
Cable Stool
Cables – these providers of electricity are a striking feature of our modern lifestyle. On floors, ceilings, and walls, not to mention in any number of products, cables are a part of the cultivated world we grow up in and live in, and something that we take for granted. Basket weaving is a manufacturing technique that is thousands of years old that has not changed over the course of time. Cable Stool consists of 30 meters of standard cable. Once this modern raw material has been acquired, the cable is hand-woven into a stool, rather like willow or raffia.
Bench Chair
Bench Chair clearly takes its inspiration from the famous Monobloc Chair but puts the associations that any chair evokes into a new context. Its curved shape is contorted into a voluminous body, thereby creating an abstract space, such that observers are confronted with a transformed hybrid. It is as simple to manufacture as the monobloc: a rotational molding process means that Bench Chair can be serially produced.