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  • ongoing
    exhibition

    MAK Design Lab at the Museum of applied Arts in Vienna. Within the permanent Design exhibition one can find a few of our projects like 'the idea of a tree', 'limited moths' or 'LeveL.

    MAK Design Lab

  • 15.September 2023 - 21. July 2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    exhibition, new project

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

reversed volumes

a collection of bowls that captures the imprint
of real fruits or vegetables

  • year 2013

  • category Products & Furniture

  • produced by

    PCM design

reversed volumes drawings

reversed volumes are shaped by capturing the imprint of fruits and vegetables in an existing bowl. The space between a bowl from the flea-market and a fruit or vegetable is filled with casting material. Once dried, the vegetable and the bowl are removed and what re-mains is a new object with both imprints. The imprints are replicated as food-safe and water proof resin objects. They are hand-crafted in a semi industrial process and this method allows slight variations in colour in order to achieve some variation within the series. The vessel highlight the various surfaces of nature and help to look at them from a different perspective. They can be used for all kinds of food. The small bowls are ideal for ice-cream and desserts, the aubergine works perfectly for serving olives, the melon for fruits and the cabbage is big enough for salads. The bowls were  initially designed for FoodMarketo in 2010. After some months of small batch production within the studio, the project was developed further for serial production. Since 2013, they are produced and edited by PCM Design and available in selected shops worldwide
and in PCM’s online shop.

main image above – image credit: Yara Varela for PCM Design

cauliflower

cauliflower imprint

‟After a month of producing reversed volumes bowls
we couldn’t eat any more cauliflower…”

cauliflower bowl

melon

set of four reversed volumes

The reversed volumes series includes ten different bowls with imprints of following fruits and vegetables:
apple, lemon, orange, cherimoya, pepper, aubergine, napa cabbage, sugar melon, cauliflower and cabbage.

eggplant

orange

cherimoya

set of reversed volumes

little lemon bowl

colour tests in order to define colours that would go well with the selected fruits and vegetables of the reversed volumes bowl series, 2013

casting a prototyp of an aubergine

  • material

    food-safe resin, food proof, dishwasher safe, NOT safe for microwave, NOT safe for the oven

  • dimensions

    10 cm – 22 cm

  • produced by
  • collection

    Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

  • awards

    – Dwell modern world award 2011 (nomination), USA