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  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    "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

  • april 2024
    new project

    For the glassware company Lobmeyr we designed "ident" - drinking set No.287

    Identical shape, identical height - five individual glasses.
    The series was unveilded during Milan Design Week.

    Lobmeyr

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 5.4.2024 - 14.7.2024
    exhibition

    "inWastement" glass series is on show at the Klimabiennale in Vienna at the "design with a purpose" exhibition.

    Klimabiennale Wien

  • 15.9.2023 - 21.7.2024
    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

  • 01.06.2024 - 30.03.2025
    exhibition, adapted project

    A utopian insect swarm based on our 'curiosity cloud' developed with 13 children from Dresden swirls during the Kinderbiennale in the Japanische Palais. The participatory process resulted in 24 fantastic, colourful insects.

    Children's Biennale "Planet Utopia"

  • 30.05 2024 - 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    All in! Re-Designing Democracy - Every aspect of democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently. A new "Themis" claims in the exhibition for rights for Nature.

    Bundeskunsthalle

  • 10.05. 2024 - 23.06.2024
    exhibition

    20th anniversary international exhibition and series of events. Our glass project "access" is part of the exhibition.

    design without borders

isochrone

a process that captures time and pace within a object

  • year 2016

  • categories Limited Editions
    Processes / Machines & Their unique Results

  • commissioned by

    Alice Stori Liechtenstein

  • for

    Schloß Hollenegg for Design

We were invited by Schloß Hollenegg for Design to stay in this special castle for a week and develop a site-specific design project to the theme of SLOW. The resulting installation is called isochrone and was presented during the SLOW- exhibition curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein.
The project tries to capture time and pace within a process and an object. It is a constant movement representing time and continuity, to be observed in a calm meditative manner. A multilayered tabletop, representing the various layers of Schloß Hollenegg’s history, is made by carefully piling colourful strata, each hand-made out of pigments, glue, sawdust and paper, onto each other. Once dried, the finished tabletop is placed underneath a big pendulum. Slow and constant, the pendulum swings circularly back and forth, abrading a sectionof the tabletop.
Through the monotonous, steady and continuous movement, a bowl is formed on the tabletop, and the layers of which the surface is made out of, are unveiled. The finished object is a hybrid between a flat surface table, and a bowl; it enriches and complements perfectly the collection of special, unusual and occasionally strange objects, that decorate the rooms of Schloß Hollenegg.

finished table at 'slow' exhibition

detail of the various layers

the pendulum at the Vienna Design Week in 2016

Through the monotonous, steady and continuous movement,
a bowl is carved in the tabletop, unveiling the different layers of which the surface consists.

table no.4 in 'light refraction' colours

table in light refraction colours

detail of the emerging bowl shape

each tabletop is made and coloured at our studio. In a slow process - beginning with mixing the dough, the single layers are coloured individually, rolled out, dried and arranged in a unique composition.

rolling the 'dough'

small single layers model of the first table

colour composition for the table no.3

exhibition setup showing various development stages of the project and a short making of movie. The colour compositions displayed, show the colours for the first two tables made.

  • material

    tabletop: wood-glue, pigments, sawdust, paper
    pendulum: metal, motor, weight, grinder

  • dimensions

    high table: Ø 60 cm x 85 cm (height)
    low table: Ø 72 cm x 45 cm (height)

  • material development

    Eva Ohrhallinger

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Maria Bauhofer, Elisa Polner