TOTIM

TOTIM (totem for TIM) is a WIFI amplifier with a build in speaker and a lighting source.

Installable through a socket to a wall, or on a vertically adjustable pole the ranges of applications are many: set at a certain height it can be a lamp or a speaker box wheras its acoustic performance will increase significantly. Mounted at bedside as a reading light, or as a user-friendly companion to listen to the radio, favorite podcast or just to amplify the sound of the movie you are watching.

The conical shape references the iconographic form of volume or a ray of light. The rounded corners provide a nice and handy grip for easy portability and a LICHTSPALT elegantly close the small gap between speaker and outter ring. TOTIM is equipped with a built in battery, which allows the use of the object independently from electronic sources; lighting and speaker function can also be operated individually. This highly technological object invites you to find your personal configuration to fill the house with music and ambience.

The result is a very simple and intuitive object that aims at blurring the line between a lamp and a sound system!

REIMAGINING OTTO WAGNER

For the Post Otto Wagner exhibition at the the museum for applied arts vienna the studio was invited to rethink the Otto Wagner table he designed in 1902 for „Die Zeit“ office in Vienna.

STILL LIFE

“With Still Life designer Marco Dessí gives a comprehensive survey of projects that have been realized to date alongside a series of newly developed prototypes that will be presented to the public for the very first time. Dessí defines Still Life as a contemplative snapshot of his works, selected and grouped in light of substantive, emblematic and aesthetic contexts. Exhibition display and individual objects merge into an atmospheric picture that, both in its totality and in detail, offers an unusual and quite personal approach to Dessí’s attitude toward design. The exhibition has been designed with an eye to its location, quoting the room’s architectural elements while evoking an interior-like atmosphere that serves both as a stage and as a set of thematic brackets for the objects presented therein.”

8 DURALEX

The Duralex Picardie glass is a beautiful mass produced industrial product – an icon. By numbering eight of these glasses they became special, an edition of eight: 1/8, 2/8, 3/8 ... The concept was further developed into a decorative feature: the numbers were replaced with engraved dots. The fact that they were hand-engraved elegantly emphasizes the contrast to the industrial product.

MOKKA

Commissioned by Vacant Galleries, a Vienna-based collective who organized pop-up art shows. The bar is assembled out of 13 modules made of thin metal sheets bent to give utmost stability. Inbuilt illumination underlines the construction and adds lightness and atmosphere. The plain industrial appearance of the counter nicely contrastes the historic patinated environment of Etablissment Gschwandner.

PARALLEL VIENNA

The VIP Lounge, previously used as the Austrian posts accountants’ office, was located in the first floor of the building. The historically charged room took us back to our project: the Viennese salon at Art Basel in 2013

The very similar exigencies led us to set the pitch-black furniture,in a new context, where materiality and color would present themselves in deliberately stark contrast: the opulence vs. the radical! The furniture displays its most distinctive features through an unconventional mix of materials such as nappa alongside space mesh, mostly known for its deployment in sports. Surrounded by paintings of Christian Rosa and Franz Graf the furnishing objects engage in a spirited dialogue with the artworks.

PUTT PUTT

Within the framework of Space TIM for Expo 2015 curated by Marco Sammicheli, each of the five participating design studios were invited to present themselves and their work through a one-week long presentation each. There were no conceptual restrictions of any kind, on condition that the chosen display would provide some form of interaction for the visitors.

From the start the studios concept was constantly revolving around the notions of accessibility and playfulness. These notions would later allow us to create a context, in which the visitor could dynamically approach the studios diverse body of work from a completely new and unexpected angle.

The decision to place all objects on the ground and arrange them in such manner, that they come to form a minigolf course, plays into the idea of creating a new approach on how to look at objects: No pedestals, no hierarchy, but a parcours that invites the visitor to playfully move through the
show with a new awareness, hence proposing to experience the works through distinctive bodily perception.