softer than steel

2014.04

for Desalto

A furniture collection designed for Italy’s Desalto, known for their metal furniture. A section of the bench has flipped up and turned into the backrest. Poles wrap around each other to become a coat stand. We bent a tabletop’s edges to attach onto the frame like cloth draping over the frame’s edges, so that the tabletop can be picked up like a tray. By adding flipped, bent and wrapped details to metal sheets and rods, the ordinarily hard material gains new functionality and a light, flexible feel, as though the metal has become paper or cloth.

为以金属家具闻名的意大利Desalto设计的家具系列。长椅的一部分翻了起来，变成了靠背。杆子互相缠绕成为一个外套架。我们把桌面的边缘弯曲到框架上，就像布料覆盖在框架的边缘上一样，这样桌面就可以像托盘一样被拿起来。通过在金属板和金属棒上添加翻转、弯曲和包裹的细节，这种通常坚硬的材料获得了新的功能和轻盈灵活的感觉，就好像金属变成了纸或布。