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Human Antenna

florian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:54:44 +0000

A carpet made of loops from conductive thread.
By standing on it, your body acts as an antenna. The carpet picks up the radio waves, which your body receives and makes them hearable. When walking on the carpet you can tune it to a certain frequency, like the tuner of a radio.

For The Birds

florian — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:04:38 +0000

Lampshades from tapioca, vegetables and wafers.
When the human does not want it anymore, he can bring it to the animal environment. The lamps can be hung to a tree and get eaten by animals

Monoknit Chair

florian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:30:45 +0000

A low-chair made from polypropylene cord. A part of the chair is heated causing the cord to shrink and harden. Because of the knit, the whole structure pulls itself together, making it more stiff. This forms the constructive shell of the chair, while the seating part stays untreated. Through the monomateriality of the chair, it is not only easy to produce, but also easy to recycle.

cord provided by Seilerei Sammt

Stacking Nesting Tables

florian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:00 +0000

An expandable nesting table. The smaller tables which are contained in the bigger ones can work as additional surface, trays, drawers or stands to form a high table.

Magnetic Curtain

florian — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:42:31 +0000

A curtain which you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.

Note: The curtain is not in production yet. Contact me if you want to be notified once the product becomes available.

Animal chairs

florian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:05:40 +0000

When you take off the skin of a cow, there’s the meat. When you take off the meat, you have the skeleton. My chairs are constructed like a creature:
skeleton, meat, skin. I reconstruct metal frames I found on the dump based on anatomic rules. Like an archeologist who finds a dinosaur skeleton.

The chairs: Kurt, Kauer, Kummer

Store your memories

florian — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:13:58 +0000

All of us have these treasures that we store somewhere in a box. Items from our childhood, findings from holidays… Every time we rediscover them, we remember the stories connected to them. Every time we clean up, we think we should finally get rid of them, throw them away.

Using 3D scanning I create digital copies of these treasures. The objects loose their materiality, but they keep their stories.With low-cost 3D printing I turn them into very personal products.

Renaturated Tacos

florian — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:02:39 +0000

Every opening, every vernissage it’s the same: We eat culinaric artworks from silver trays, snacks where you wouldn’t believe that they originally were made from plants and animals.

With my taco chips I want to bring the natural aspect back to industrial food. The chips can be built in an architectural structure directly on the table, or grow across it in organically structured branches. Pick the chips like from a tree an dip it in the sauce which is contained in the structure

Ljusvaen

florian — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:40:29 +0000

The illuminating friend on your couch. No more sitting in the dark while watching a movie. No more being afraid of scary scenes. No more spilling your beer while reaching for the chips.

Puppet Lamps

florian — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:13:00 +0000

Puppets from the secondhand shop reworked into decorative lights.
These dolls got bright little minds.