Through an aesthetic refining treatment studio Jens Praet is presenting chipboard in a different way underlining its beauty and archaic function. This honest material is turned into a contemporary crafted table and sideboard.
Both items are challenging us to question our usual preconceptions with particle board...
PROJECTS
We have been working hard in order to update the existing production of the shredded concept method and enlarged the collection with 9 new items.
The magazine editions are made in collaboration with Fast Company, Capitol File, Robb Report, Art in America, and Details...
Arctic Collection is inspired by the Arctic with its melting ice glaciers and eroded details. Through the use of sensitive detailing, this table series create a strong communication medium enhancing the importance of both global industrialization and the beauty and emphasis of the Arctic environment...
Inverso is a storage system for PlusDesign Gallery in Milano, composed by marble blocks and particle board shelves. The wooden particle grain is turned into aesthetically refined shelves - the marble blocks are produced with use of avant-garde production techniques transforming this archaic material into rather contrasting and paradoxly contemporary elements...
Processus is a table composed by 721 hand-painted Iznik tiles, and a European walnut understructure.
Every tiles is finished by hand; its imperfections are in our opinion the true beauty of the project. Even though it is process related, a remarkable and unexpected coincidence is the subtle oriental reminding honeycomb pattern illustrated on the tabletop as the main focus point...
Non-useful documents and discarded leftover magazines are transformed into valuable and useful objects.
Shredded has been enlarged with 4 brand new items, a table, a bench, a low table and an open library, in partnership with Elle Decor...
Launch during Design Miami in December with Industry Gallery.
Dressed is a collection of contemporary furniture items, consisting of a table, a bench, a chair and a stool, composed by oxidized green patinated bronze dresses and brushed brass under-structures, designed in collaboration with artist Jan Praet...
Launch during Design Miami in December with Industry Gallery.
Evergreen is a collection of height adjustable pendant lamps. In designing this contemporary lighting collection we are trying to refer to industrial evergreen elements, creating a new light medium that reminds the golden age of global industrialization and the beauty of forgotten classic design icons...
Studio Jens Praet has enlarged its shredded furniture concept. Unusefull documents and leftover magazines are transformed into valuable objects. To this end are being mixed the confetti from shredded paper with resin into a mould and letting it harden to become rigid objects...
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