After five years of 45 Kilo we are happy to announce our first lookbook that was produced in collaboration with studio von fuchs und lommatzsch.
It consists of two catalogues, one showing well developed products, the other one giving an overview on selected projects and prototypes. If you wish to order this catalogue please write us an email, find the PDF version here:
The round version of the BUSY TABLE is a geometrical combination of the circle and the triangle. The steel folded construction is all triangular, three separate legs are attached to the up-side-down tetraeder that carries a heavy marble stone. Three-legged as it is, it stands well on uneven ground, so it works as a garden table as well.
Fotos: Das Schmott
The wooden PAIR STOOLS are unequal twins, one giving you a rest, the other one putting you in a more active seating position.
They can complement each other and form a bench which looks like a wave, or, when stacked up on each other, they turn into a sculpture.
Fotos: Das Schmott
HALLO WALL, the smaller brother of HALLO WORK, is a simple and adjustable wall mounted light that is made for a variety of lighting situations. Unlike it’s bigger brother, it can be mounted upon wall outlets.
Fotos: Das Schmott
We worked on our HALLO LIGHT again, resulting in two new lamps.
The Hallo series is a pair of two wall mounted lights, made for working situations where an adjustable top-down light is needed.
Both Hallo lights have been designed in a functionalist manner, though Hallo Work is introducing an unusual detail in the adjusting mechanism: a simple strap of leather can be moved along the arm to adjust the height, which gives a natural feel to the technical object.
Fotos: Das Schmott
Our DESCENT LIGHT and JACK IN THE BOX are featured in the new Gestalten book LUX, which is in stores now!
Thank you, Gestalten!
Our OTTOMAN hanging light is now available in a very delicate polished version!
LINES and our BREADBOX can now be purchased over the SELEKKT online shop!
let’s go shopping:
We made a hanging edition of our JACK IN THE BOX.
The HANGING JACKS are nothing but multiple sockets hanging from the ceiling, thus made to fit well into your working or living surroundings. This hand soldered and polished brass version offers 16 outlets, that will turn electricity and wiring into something you no longer want to hide.
Fotos: Paul Schöpfer
We are glad to announce that we are one of the nominees for the DESIGNPREIS DEUTSCHLAND!
Goldmund is a floor light inspired by both a crane construction and a parasol. It combines very technical features with a warm materiality. All brass parts have been especially made by hand. The lampshade is hand-soldered and polished and creates beautiful reflections on your tabletop. Goldmund was especially made for the Carwan Gallery and the “Milan does Beirut” show.
Carwan Gallery from Beirut invited us to be part of their second edition of “MILAN DOES BEIRUT”. This time in Beirut, Lebanon.
Next to Lindsey Adelman, Paul Loebach, Philippe Malouin, Samare, Oeuffice and Kwangho Lee, we were showing our ARCHITECT’S TABLE, CHAIR #2 and GOLDMUND, a standing light we specially made for the Carwan Gallery.
This is a total one-off, in the workshop of our metal spinner we found a very nice metal dome, which we wanted to use as a lamp shade. Unfortunately our powder coater decided to drill a hole in the shade for hanging it, so we decided to mount the shade vertically. voila, the new SATELLIGHT was born!
For the Nachtdigital festival for electronic dance music in eastern Germany, we were asked to build a lighting sculpture together with Julien Simshäuser and Sebastian Wolf.
The Fist Of Light is an interactive light and sound installation made of a lot of fluorescent tubes, pvc connectors, hundreds of cables and electronics.
Fotos: das schmott
www.dasschmott.de
www.nachtdigital.de
www.juliensimshauser.com
www.einsdreidrei.com
For our friends from Hier war Goethe nie we built a handrail for the staircase of the wonderful apartment.
Find it next to our OTTOMAN LIGHT!
If you need a stay in Weimar, check in here:
We are part of the Projektraum 1.0 exhibition at the stilwerk design gallery!
Next to Elisa Strozyk, Milia Seyppel and Sebastian Herkner, we are showing our collaboration jewelry pieces which we did together with Marie Burkhard.
For our friend and designer Laura Straßer we made a special edition of our ARCHITECT’S TABLE. It is made of birch plywood, completely covered with desktop linoleum. The Designer’s table offers 8 folded steel drawers, powder coated in a decent mint color, same as the frame.
These pressure formed lampshades are inspired by old ottoman helmets. They are made by hand by Hugo Bräuer in Berlin and they come in brass and copper.
Lines is a set of minimalistic shelves made of folded steel. Either it has lines in it, then it is more for kitchen or bathroom use, or it is closed and a bit stronger, then it serves as a bookshelf. It was inspired by Dieter Rams 606 shelving system, though here you can start with a single element if you are not rich enough, plus you can put it in any order.
Easy is a coatrack made of bent steel with two feet and two wheels that likes to be pushed around.
A new version of the former 126,3 table will be presented at DMY Berlin. A base made of folded stainless steel carries a heavy piece of german oak.
We are happy to announce a collaboration with Marie Burkhard and Sight Unseen.
For the occasion of this years Milan Design Week and ICFF we designed a series of four necklaces made of polished copper. The pieces are collages of designs by Marie Burkhard and 45 Kilo and can be purchased via Sight Unseen in the US or by us in Europe.
For MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS we reworked the shape of our Jack.
Jack in the box is a tool-furniture, it allows you to create flexible and structured working conditions. It can be a lighting object, something to load mobile phones or both. Jack in the box gives all your electric devices what they need most. Jack in the box is made of powder-coated steel in various RAL colours, beech wood and 15 sockets.
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Together with Manuel Goller and Daniel Burchard we launched the first presentation of the new company at CARWAN Gallery in Milan.
Our first official collection consists of unique furniture, graphic editions, lighting and accessories by 45 Kilo, Marie Burkhard, Rosa Merk, Manuel Raeder, Sebastian Schönheit, Peter Schwartz, Milia Seyppel, Laura Straßer and Moritz Wiegand.
Go check it out:
The all new bread box is out! Improvements have been made in the sliding mechanism and in the size, it just fits the bread better. We produce them in small series in varying colors, at the moment we have yellow light blue and white.
BRT-Recycling Technologie commissioned us to design a chandelier for their new head office.
BRT is specialized in machines for sorting and recycling waste and they have great products like the ‘SCHLITZ-O-MAT’.
What they do by machines, we did for them with our hands and elaborated taste. Investing a few hours in a deep research in waste brought up beautiful pieces of plastic. They had been cleaned, drilled and sorted to end up in this chandelier.
The next version is a smaller one, comes in a rainbow color variety and fits very well in your living room!
Together with Metrofarm we were asked to design a shop interior of the new Juicy Panic store in Berlin mitte.
We bent a lot of hydraulic tubings and added folded steel for the exclusive gala store with the huge changing room in the back.
Go check it out, before it’s a gallery again!
We created a home for the best food Germany has to offer!
A minimalistic breadbox made of accurately folded sheet steel, which measurements follow the golden mean, ca. 1.6180340. The slideable top serves as a chopping board at the same time.
It‘s made of powdercoated steel and ash tree. Comes in RAL 9011, 9018, 6019
Desktop working spaces include a lot of technology that is usually powered by cables. We wanted to create something around this because we like to work so much.
Taking a closer look at this may result in a passive or an active design. Either you don’t care about how it looks and you stay flexible to any changes because it’s chaotic anyway. Or you may get pedantic and put everything in channels to hide it all, but then you would not dare to change your configuration or to put your charger in a socket. Jack in the box is something in-between, it allows you to create a flexible, chaotic yet structured working area. As accessory there are these bulbs that you may plug.
It’s made of bent steel, teak,
cables and sockets.
At WOK Store in Milan we’ll have a MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS show again. Next to Forte and Chair N° 2, we present new works of Philipp Böhm, Uli Budde, Johannes Hein, Laura Straßer and Julius Kranefuss.
Opening party
16th April, 18h
Opening hours
14th–18th April 2010, 10-20h
For the centenary of 65 years liberation of KZ Buchenwald, our friends Schroeter und Berger asked us to design three boxes for an audio installation.
‘Children of Buchenwald / an audio installation at three locations’ will be installed and opened in line with the commemoration.
Rive gauche is more quiet, tidy, conservative and settled than the rest of Paris. While taking a walk through the expensive galleries we found a wonderful 50’s sideboard, made of thin rods and a simple sheet of glass.
Then half a year later, Daniel’s father who is born in 1950, had his 60th birthday.
He is a doctor and has a lot of old furniture inherited from his father, most of it from the 50’s. Being raised in this ambience led to the idea of redesigning this parisienne sideboard for him.
We used just one single rod for each piece. It is bent in three dimensions to create a closed circuit and we did minimal routing to attach mountings for the top and the wall.
The Palomar5 project is featured in the current issue
of the INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE march 2010!
We even got the cover – second one, yess!
Here we are in Stuggi-town, where people speak funny
and are open minded towards musical furniture.
People like how we did the cheapest stand design ever
(8,90 € for 1000 paperclips), somehow still confused by what we want to do with the Forte table. Hopefully some generous and wealthy man may come and buy our little cuty. Stephan started and bought the blue chair, helping us to get to Milan again.
Today we got this neat publication from Korean magazine MARU. It is featuring Lotta for the first time in a magazine. We like!
Philipps diploma is a working table for musicians and designers or other people. It transfers the picture of a classical stage piano, in a cut and modern way. The table offers storage space for electronic instruments and devices such as drum computers, synthesizers and laptop, which includes an oversized powerstrip. The base is a lightweight construction of steel rods, welded together to a spiderweb-looking structure, just like the strings fell out of the piano’s body.
Egon is a simple and classical tubular table series with different tabletops made from HPL. It was designed to improve the famous tablebase by Egon Eiermann in the fields of simple production, economical use of material, disassembly, easy mounting and last but not least legroom.
This allround-tablebase can be used with different kinds of desktops such as the 8 mm thin HPL-top, or a slick top that includes large-sized drawers.
Thanks for the inspiration, Egon!
Egon is our first serial product which is manufactured by H&H Furniture and for which we won the red dot award!
Our 9,3 tablebase is featured in the current Art Aurea Magazine!
We are invited to show the recent MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS products at DESIGNERS’ OPEN in Leipzig. Next to our Chair #2 and Hallo Light, we’ll show works of Johannes Hein, Marie Burkhard, Sebastian Schönheit, Laura Strasser, Lisa Dinges and Stephan Bohn.
DESIGNERS’ OPEN 09
23. – 25.10.2009
STAND S.04
We are in Leipzig again! Beloved Saxons, let us invite you to a glass of wine on our newest table, the 126,3! You’ll find the WURST CASE SCENARIO right next to our MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS stand.
www.designersopen.de
Palomar5 was established as a non-profit initiative seeking innovation outside of corporate structures. They organized a six-week workshop in order to bring together young and motivated people from all over the world. This event took place in an old and empty factory building, called Malzfabrik in the south of Berlin.
Within three months we designed a temporary architecture on about 2.000 sqm. The aim of the design was to offer a high grade of functionality at low costs and still to create an emotional atmosphere throughout the building. About forty people should sleep, work, cook and relax in the architecture we designed.
The project is divided into three main parts: a small village with 40 little houses, a big installation that structures the working space and another installation in the chillout area. For reasons of simplicity and coherence the white cube became the theme of the design in all areas. In addition to that we designed a big working desk with drawers made from standard containers for the kitchen and a simple detachable and stackable table for various purposes.
The abbey Sainte-Marie-de-La-Tourette in Éveux, Lyon by Le Corbusier was the inspiration for the sleeping box. Le Corbusier designed a minimal cabin for the monks that gave them privacy in a small room in contrast to the wide open spaces for the group. In the same manner the sleeping box is reduced to a bed, wardrobe, ceiling window, night table and two lamps. Just like the monks cabinet, it is possible to open it completely, just to have the textile blind or to close it completely with the doors. This way the inhabitant has the possibility to choose different degrees in how private he or she wants to live. Although everybody has the same box, the placement of the boxes in the big hall of the upper floor generates a typical village situation with streets, lively squares and calmer areas.
The work in the future is the overall theme of the Palomar 5 group. Creative group work from 3 – 5 persons within a bigger group of 40 persons requires tables, chairs and space that can be easily modified. The main function of the surrounding installation is to provide an inspiring and dense atmosphere.
The big deconstructed white cube separates the 300 sqm hall into several areas that are working spaces for different groups within the Palomar 5 team. More important than this functional character, the installation establishes an image that becomes part of the identity of the team. The form derives from a big white cube that has been cut in three equally sized parts, that have been torn into the space.
The white cube in the context of art draws all attention onto the art exhibited. It is the empty space that carries no information, blank paper, a medium in its most minimalistic form. In our idea the deconstruction of this form should generate new forms of thinking about the mediums we work with in everyday life. Destruction of forms as we know and anticipate them is the pre-condition for everything that is new. That’s what the participants of Palomar 5 strive for and that is why we generated a form that expresses the same thoughts.
Contrary to the concept of the white cube, the Re-creational area, as the word expresses, is a composed installation that brings together things (little white cubes) and people (represented by 40 white cubes). Similar to the working area, the installation generates a certain flow in the hall, but it does not divide the existing architecture into smaller parts. Symbolically it is an image for the temporary happening, the gathering that is taking place at the moment. The basic functions are the acoustic improvement, it can be used for projections and messages and it offers areas for sports, games and gambling.
A simple kitchen already existed in the factory but we thought that collective cooking might add some quality for this big flat share. At low costs we realized a ready made kitchen table were up to 8 people can prepare food. The containers are drawers and at the same time they can be used for shopping.
As the project needed about 22 tables that could easily be transported, stacked and assembled for all kinds of purposes, we developed a very simple and cheap table. It consists of a plain and stackable frame and a HPL–desktop that is attached to the base with Velcro. Spending money and resources for a temporary project leads to the problem of efficiency and ecological use of material. The installations in the three big areas sleeping, working and recreation were designed with the aim to use recycled material wherever possible and to keep the constructions lightweight.
We wanted to reuse most of the materials especially the wood. For most of the constructions we used thin MDF-plates which is a material that is made from recycled wood waste produced by mills and manufacturing plants. MDF itself is very difficult to reuse several times and mostly meant for one-time constructions. Since we didn’t use any glue or composite parts, we were able to disassemble the boxes and the white cube till the last screw.
The wood was then recycled to feed an eco friendly biomass heating system of our carpenter. The recreational area was 95% made out of cardboard and 5% wooden slats, therefore it could be completely recycled as well. The furniture we designed is now being used in the Palomar 5 office.
http://palomar5.org/
http://zweidrei.eu/
Photo: Rosa Merk, http://rosamerk.com/
Super-heavy weight and still a beauty! Our solid oak wood tabletop lies on a tablebase made of folded steel, powdercoated in light grey.
126,3 is a top level kitchen table made to resist and beloved.
Our first book-publication!
The jaunty design book is published by daab and is available in every better bookstore now, go get one! Ciao Kostas!
Ake Rudolf visited us in Milan and invited us to come to the DMY Allstars, which we do, with pleasure.
Next to Velo and Hallo Light, we present a tablebase, similar to Velo, but in a more industrial and straight way, which is called 9,3 Kilo.
www.dmy-berlin.com
www.betterbauhaus.com
We took part in the exhibition “Kunstawine” in Erfurt. Next to pieces from Christian von Werner, Schroeter und Berger and Claudia Neuhaus, guests could marvel at our cute little green one – our chair with the drawer. Even Cindy Sizer was there and swung the shark fins after the show!
www.kunst-blog.com/
www.upitup.com/cindysizer
MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS was our first group exhibition together with friends from the capital of design. Federica Zambon and Simona Citarella kindly invited us to exhibit at their WOK-Store in via Col di Lana and Daniel Emil Burchard was so kind to give us this title and to design a wonderful poster/catalogue for us. Not to forget the Bauhaus.Transferzentrum Design that made the whole thing possible. Thanks!
Our favorite graphic design duo “Schroeter und Berger” asked us to create the exhibition design for the exhibition Das Bauhaus kommt aus Weimar at Schiller Museum, Weimar. We made two large pedestals for the updated work of Bauhaus-foreman László Moholy-Nagy by Schroeter und Berger.
www.schroeterundberger.de
www.das-bauhaus-kommt.de
Photos: Claudia Neuhaus.
www.claudianeuhaus.com
The second version of our Hallo Light has a heavy concrete foot that was casted with a traffic cone.
Casting is fun, do try it at home!
We made a match between two of our best friends, table and bike. They were so happy about their relationship that they gave us this child. We called it Velo and we love it as if it was ours. Velo is made of nickel-plated steel tubes, the glass plate lies on handlebar tape.
All ride!
Our second version of the drawer tabletop.
Again a tabletop with a lot of storage space and a linoleum desktop. This time we used oak wood for the drawers and all the edges of our beloved Aluwell.
The wooden version offers three drawers on each side with more than enough space for your love letters.
Daniel’s parents have always been supporting 45 Kilo.
Furthermore the Klapsing kitchen needed something more than just cosmetical care.
This kitchen has some features: it is a little bit wheelchair friendly as most of the storage space is in low drawers, the boxes have little feet so one can drive a little bit closer to them, it just offers more space than the old one and it doesn’t look like a wheelchair friendly universal design thing. Basically it’s a simple kitchen.
We liked the idea to design everything by ourselves, except the oven and the fridge. So we used the prototypes of Hallo Light and Chair N° 2 and made a table and a bench in order to complete the look.
Our first version of the Hallo Light. It’s a wall mounted light that is adjustable via a delicious little leather strap.
Thuringian simplicity at it’s best!
We are in Leipzig! Come by and check out 45,000 design bonbons at Designers’ Open in Leipzig.
Sip some wine with us while your girlfriend tries a new fashion piece by our lovely friends from Mädchentraum, who will be supporting us!
Our second attempt on Eggman. This one was developed for an exhibition at gallery E105, it’s a wooden game for the whole family.
Egon would’ve loved this 3D puzzle.
Our first attempt to find an alternative version to the classical design of the Eiermann-tablebase.
For all those who do not care about function but iconic-ironic l’art pour l’art.
Commissioned by the faculty media of the bauhaus-university weimar, we designed a stackable and foldable module that can be used for presentations and fairs.
You can hang a lot of stuff on every side of it, like prints or screens or – for all i care – your favorite t-shirt.
Yet another table. The first of our Diploma series is a super lightweight construction made of Alucore plates. It is detachable and simply plugged together and screwed to the top with two screws. We used teakwood from a sunken corsair for all the edges, to ensure excitement and coolness.
We very much enjoyed to have an exhibition with Kiel Mead in the future perfect store in New York.
It was called Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness whilst our part was more the clean one, Kiel headed for the godliness.
We showed our Green Series, the Halo Light at the left side of the image is a collaboration piece we made exclusively for this exhibition.
Thanks David Ahaldeff!
Halo Light is a collaboration with Kiel Mead for the exhibition Cleanliness is next to godliness in the future perfect store in Williamsburg, NY.
The idea is to create a light that combines reduced aesthetics with pure holiness. The whole light is made of three folded and powder-coated bars that do all that is to do.
Besides tables, we also collect vinyl, so we needed a good looking box to stack and store them. Our LP Boxes are made of five identical parts, simply glued together. They don’t make the black beauty lighter, but even more good looking!
Stop moving, go for vinyl!
By Zweidrei and 45 Kilo. We were invited to take part at the soundframe festival in Vienna with an installation on space and sound according to classical rules of harmony. The whole concept is based on harmonic relations between the length of strings, the sounds they generate and virtually generated spaces that are based on these.
There is a box with seven instrument (basically guitars with only one string each) inside. By playing these guitars, they generated a virtual space in real-time. Each string deforms the space more and more. Each tone had a special harmonic length, the deformation of the virtual space was then transformed according to the harmonic relations of the tone.
www.zweidrei.eu
www.soundframe.at
The younger brother of Chair N° 1, but without the drawer and slightly bigger and at the same time more elegant.
The idea of the chair started as a reinterpretation of Jasper Morrison’s Ply Chair. We combined 5-axis CNC with handcraft and achieved a more ergonomic and rigid structure.
Our first version of the drawer tabletop is a plain tabletop for bases like the Eiermann or others. Four drawers and four cases offer space for laptops, papers, pens and so on. A linoleum top makes a good surface for writing and working. Aluminium sandwich material makes this tabletop light and rigid. All drawers run on a sliding tape so they glide without extra components.
We don’t only need the sockets, we love them. It’s like an oversized power strip, combined with a quadratical working table, whereof four nerds can have a sweet LAN-party. It is powered by an umbilical cord in the center.
Our first official show! At Designmai Youngsters 2007 we are showing our green series consisting of our Chair N° 1, the Pressfit table, Tabletop N° 1 and the amazing Coatrack! Come by and have a drink with us!
Voilà, our ultralight and supersweet chair for every purpose! Since it seems like every Designer has to have worked on a chair, we started with it right at the beginning. But we thought a chair only is boring, so we added the drawer. Now you can hide your secret magazines in your chair, or rest your feet on the pulled out drawer.
Fits perfectly to our press fit table or its brother, the Chair N° 2!
Fashion is for fashion people, and they need Coatracks. It was designed in our awkward adolescent plug phase. The more fashion you put up on it, the more rigid it gets, since the legs straddle. You better start shopping!
Our very first table.
It’s a completely detachable table, consisting of two identical halves that can also be used as sidesboards, leaning against the wall. It can be a working desk, a sideboard for your stereo, or the beloved kitchentable that offers enough space in it’s tray for whatever you like.
The Pressfit Table is completely made of coated plywood, attached without any glue or screws.
