Design objects with surprise egg effect

Pia Seidel

5.5.2022

Translation: machine translated

Pictures: Pia Seidel

Fun, games, excitement - design? Some furniture and home accessories are like a surprise egg, just without chocolate.

Guessing game

What material do you think the beautiful pieces in the pictures are made of? Give your guess - you'll find the solution right after you scroll down.

1. Danuta Kril

2. Yuma Kano

3. Satomi Minoshima

4. monika debus

5. djim berger

6. nacho Carbonell

Resolution

1. Guculia Tini

The first thing I got wrong was Danuta Kril 's collection. I thought her dinnerware collection called "Guculia Tini" in smoky look is made of metal. In fact, this is ceramic. The metallic black layer is created when smoke enters the clay during the firing process.

The tableware was created using the so-called Havarechchyna pottery technique, which originated in the village of the same name in western Ukraine. The technique is hardly practiced today and only a handful of people have mastered it. The designer wants to change that and revive it with her black smoked pottery.

2. rust harvest

Whether it's rich turquoise or yellow, I was banking on this finish on the stained glass being Arcyl or oil paints. But as the English name "Rust Harvest" later tells me, there is rust behind it. Yuma Kano mixes rust with an acrylic resin to make a new material suitable for coating and beautifying surfaces.

Everyone wants to remove rust stains as soon as it eats its way through facades. Except Yuma Kano. The designer likes to invite the unpopular guest into his home and turn him into an eye-catcher: the stained glass scores with unique patterns and also turns the room into one: it constantly casts new light patterns on surfaces depending on the time of day.

3. skin tote

The bags are meant to express the diversity of skin color. That's why Satomi Minoshima colored the silicone in different shades. She considers our skin as an interface with the environment, which is imbued with tactile information like a bag and contains who we are. She also expresses this message through a series of photographs.

4 Memory II

The German ceramic artist did not print the marble cake-shaped object, but painted it. And that was before it was fired at a low temperature in a salt firing process. How well this emerges in the end, and how light and dark some of the areas become, is a matter of chance and cannot be controlled in the process.

5. lightweight porcelain

Once each piece is in the kiln, the fire burns the polymer and reveals the novel porcelain, which may not be as strong as a stone, but is certainly stronger than standard porcelain. This property makes the material ideal for furniture construction. Visually, the structure resembles a beehive or pumice stone.

6. luciverase XXXVII

The experimental works from the collection "Luciferase" by the Spaniard Nacho Carbonell seemed like mushrooms of light to me, until I discovered their cable connection on the back. They are made of epoxy resin mixed with sand and sometimes covered with plaster dust or metal dust.

Pia Seidel

Senior Editor

Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.ch

Like a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.

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