45 KILO

JACK IN THE BOX

philipp — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:40:15 +0000

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.

MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS, WOK Milano

philipp — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:03:34 +0000

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

www.wok-store.com
www.betterbauhaus.com

BUCHENWALD-CHILDREN

philipp — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:31:42 +0000

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.

www.schroeterundberger.de

www.buchenwald.de

RIVE GAUCHE

philipp — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:04:54 +0000

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.

INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZIN

philipp — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:17:19 +0000

The Palomar5 project is featured in the current issue
of the INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE march 2010!

We even got the cover – second one, yess!

http://www.interiordesign.net/

BLICKFANG STUTTGART

philipp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

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.

www.blickfang.com

MARU MAGAZINE

daniel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:14:38 +0000

Today we got this neat publication from Korean magazine MARU. It is featuring Lotta for the first time in a magazine. We like!

MARU

FORTE

daniel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:59:59 +0000

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

philipp — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:59:22 +0000

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!

www.h-h-furniture.de
www.red-dot.de

MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS, LEIPZIG

philipp — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:16:21 +0000

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

www.designersopen.de

DESIGNERS’ OPEN LEIPZIG

philipp — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:07:03 +0000

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

PALOMAR 5 CAMP BY ZWEIDREI AND 45 KILO

daniel — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:01:32 +0000

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/

126,3 KILO FOR GINA

daniel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:39:44 +0000

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.

CREATIVE GERMANY BOOK

philipp — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:12:59 +0000

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!

www.daab-online.com
www.amazon.de

MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS, BERLIN

philipp — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:53:47 +0000

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.