The unpolished cut of the crystal glasses breaks the sunlight in a spectrum of fine lines and creates light patterns on the table. The glasses are produced by hand in a time consuming process. Each glass is unique and is produced by the glass cutter with the use of all their skills.
Subtle, barely noticeable differences between the pieces are evidence of these hand made glasses.
The WOOD/METAL SIDE TABLES are hand-made objects for various purposes.
The base of oiled ash wood carries three different metal sheets, which results in a strong contrast. The surfaces are polished and burnt copper, polished aluminum and brushed brass. The thin and lightweight pieces invite you to carry them around your home, wherever you need them.
The table system is a simple and classical tubular furniture with a slim tabletop which offers 3 drawers on both sides. It was designed to improve the famous tablebase by Egon Eiermann in terms of simple production, economical use of material, disassembly, easy mounting and last but not least legroom.
The array of the legs allow to use the table from all sides, so that you might also use it as a dining table. This allround-tablebase can be used with different kinds of desktops.
The WHITE DRAWERS version is made of veneered birch plywood, finished with a white coating.
BUSY TABLE is a customizable concept for office or dining rooms. BUSY POP comes with a veneered birch wood top, waxed in smooth white and a pastel violet base.
This copper version of HANG JACK is soldered and polished by hand and afterwards treated with a torch to discover the natural inherent colors of copper.
The storage container BIG BOX offers a lot of space for a lot of things.
By closing the powder coated metal box with a solid top made of ash wood it becomes a cubic side table.
The Mokka light is simply put together by a classical geometric lampshade, a standard copper rod and electrical wire. Assembling these parts creates a certain lightness, the lamp seems to be floating in the room.
The adjustable installation to the ceiling allows the lamp to be placed where it is needed. By pulling the wire through the rod, the height of the shade can easily be changed.
We designed a DIY kit for the lampshade, including instructions for building the whole light.
The project will be published in the new edition of the DIY furniture book by Luur Design.
Enjoy your fresh brewed coffee with the 45 Kilo espresso cups! They were made without forms, but just by hand. Realized in Jingdezhen, the birthtown of porcelain. Thanks to Laura Straßer for realizing the prototypes!
Chair 3 is a minimalistic, though ergonomic and lightweight chair made of ash wood. The backrest and the seating are made of air-ply, a material of high flexibility and low weight. The seating surface has a double twist in it, in the front it is bend in an ‘A’ form, while in the back it is bend to a ‘V’. This complex form can easily be bent into the air-ply. This way, all parts are simply glued, without screws or dowels. Another feature is the softness of the wood: the 3 mm air-ply is flexible and gives you a comfortable feeling.
The P5 TABLE is now available in a round version, with a powder coated steel base and a thin HPL tabletop.
Modern technology is blackboxing. It reduces complexity and makes our life easier.
HANG JACK is the antipode to the magic of technology. It brings us and our devices down to earth.
The OTTOMAN LIGHT is now available in an anodized anthracite blue version.
The pressure formed lampshades are hand made in Berlin and remind of old Ottoman helmets.
More colors soon.
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 white, yellow and light blue.
The bird table was developed in collaboration with Partisan Vodka. 45 Kilo and another german studio were asked to design a table in an (p)artisan manner.
Each team started with half a tree and was limited to a wood-only construction. We tried to use all the wood we had, so we developed a big table consisting of two trestles and a 300 x 100 cm tabletop, completely made of beech wood.
The trestles remind of bird feet, though they could also be tank traps.
Thanks to Konrad Bialowas and David Hedberg for their substantial help on this project!
Our friend Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte asked us for a special edition of our ARCHITECT’S TABLE.
In this version we used Corian and oak wood for the tabletop, the base is copper-coated.
Italian style!
The ARCHITECT’S BASE does what architects should do: use a minimum of material while offering a high degree of usability.
This multipurpose base can be customized for any size of tabletops, it is detachable and offers legroom from all sides.
HALLO WORK is inspired by Jean Prouvés Potence light. The main idea was to add the possibility of changing the height of the head and to have a concentrated spot light instead of an overall lighting. Yet we wanted to create something that is as minimal and light as the predecessor.
Luckily we found a very simple solution for the height changing mechanism. It consists of a wire that is attached to the head and the wall piece which leads through a leather strap. The height can then be changed by moving the strap along the arm.
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.
Our OTTOMAN hanging light is now available in a very delicate polished version!
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: Das Schmott
Paul Schöpfer
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
