NAKED SHAPES
DOMAINE DE BOISBUCHET
NAKED SHAPES
The exhibition concept for NAKED SHAPES followed the guidelines of Japanese aesthetics in everyday objects. Simple materials - such as paper and wooden bars - were brought into shape using basic crafting tools.
Modular podiums built with folded cardboard in a consistent shape - just like toy blocks - offer a variety of arrangements by combining the beveled surfaces.
NAKED SHAPES was set up in an abandoned château in South Western France; its exhibits were Japanese minimalist aluminum household objects: Both spheres share similar characteristics and harmoniously compliment each other.
NAKED SHAPES was realized with the support of students from Parsons The New School of Design, New York.
DIE FUGE
ABK STUTTGART
DIE FUGE
Fugues are composed in the form of a musical conversation. They owe their name to the Latin word 'fuga', which can be translated as 'flight' or 'running away'. In this demanding musical form, the theme flees from one voice to another.
The term has also established itself in architecture and design. Here the transition between two components can also be understood as a remarkable design achievement and is worth investigating between precision, staging and poetry.
The students of the ABK Stuttgart were encouraged to find their own, study-like approach to the subject.
STUDY
JAN CAFUK
ARMCHAIR
KYRA HEILIG/LENN GERLACH
FILMIC STUDY
LEONIE SCHIMMEYER
RACK SYSTEM
KAI-RENÉ BULLACH
KLOPSTOCK
NILS HOLGER MOORMANN
KLOPSTOCK
A table is a table is a table. This does not go for KLOPSTOCK. Though indeed a table like a poem, it is a quickly changing artist, stepping out of line, setting new standards of what a table can offer.
Thanks to a special system that clicks and snaps, its legs can assume twelve different positions, depending on the preferred table height or chair arrangement or just the way you like it. KLOPSTOCK may be altered at any time with a simple snap into the next position. Because a table is a lot of tables ...
PIP
RICHARD LAMPERT
PIP
A versatile, non-flammable seat based on a playful idea: any number of side panels, seats and backrests can be connected freely and combined with slide-on cushions. The elements and benches can be combined to one-, two- or three-seater and can be arranged to change the alignment of the seats or to follow corners: the components may be set up back-to-back or used without backrests.
Based on gypsum fiberboard, PIP commits to a new materiality. As solid as stone, but as comfortable as wood: Let’s stick together!
SO ODER SO
NILS HOLGER MOORMANN
SO ODER SO
Shelf boards, diagonals and verticals are fixed with a black connector by a rotation of 90°.
SO ODER SO is a storage system with playful simplicity. Construction, material assembly and arrangement presuppose each other.
The diagonals function as supporting and accentuating elements at the same time; the cutouts in turn represent the matrix dots of the system.
SO ODER SO merges form, construction and high individual customization.
AKI
with JAN BOURQUIN
AKI
AKI is a clamp. It combines boards to shelves and structures, while their height, width and depth of construction are as variable as its materiality.
AKI simplifies planning and realization of uniques customized to fit any room.
BLINZELBAR
FRAPPANT HAMBURG
BLINZELBAR
An abandoned shopping mall in Hamburg called Frappant for years was used by around 130 artists as workshop and exhibition space. Facing the street, the project space BLINZELBAR was the interface which communicated Frappant’s activities and events to the public outside.
Its walls and floors were covered with a mosaic pattern whose trompe-l‘œil effect challenged viewing habits, blurring the frontiers of space.
Tables and chairs made of white, rectangular boards functioned as counterparts. They have been constructed from built-in closets found on Frappant’s premises – a transformation of utility value following aesthetic rules.
ABOUT
KERN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
ABOUT
It is worth to approach the design practice in a sustainable and impressive way. The work of Daniel Kern creates a system of simple and playful components. His projects are comprehensible and economical.
His modular arrangements involve the user: anything tangible and changeable becomes a projection screen and a home of the individual mind.
Daniel lives and works in Berlin and in a former quarry in Hohenlohe. Where once shell lime was mined, today nature powerfully reclaims space: this is where his workshop and a retreat for new designs are located.
CV
DANIEL KERN
Daniel Kern studied Visual Communication and Industrial Design at Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK). Still during his studies, he joined the design group Danasz Bourski that held a workspace in the city’s former mall building Frappant.
In 2008/09, Daniel worked as Assistant Curator at Vitra Design Museum, responsible for the exhibition “Antibodies. Works by Fernando & Humberto Campana 1989 – 2009”.
In 2011, he graduated with distinction and designed exhibitions, such as for the workshop center Domaine de Boisbuchet, before joining the design team of Nils Holger Moormann.
His work has received several awards, including the Design Award from the Leinemann Foundation Design Support (Leinemann Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst) and the Karl H. Ditze Scholarship for outstanding students. In 2013 and 2014, the German Design Council nominated Daniel for the Newcomer of the Year Award.
Since 2016, Daniel Kern has been working as an independent product designer.
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Concept and Design
KID
Development
Jonas Ranks
Photo credits
for Domaine de Boisbuchet: Lee Gibson; for Richard Lampert: Peter Schumacher/KID; for Nils Holger Moormann: Jäger & Jäger/Julia Rotter; for Jan Bourquin: Jan Bourquin and for KID: Sarah Knauer; for ABK STUTTGART: students as named
