isochrone
a process that captures time and pace within a object
year 2016
categories Limited Editions
Processes / Machines & Their unique Resultscommissioned by
Alice Stori Liechtenstein
for
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mischertraxler_SchlossHollenegg_Isochrone_exhibition-setup_2_300dpi-e1521811706871.jpg)
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.
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mischertraxler_SchlossHollenegg_Isochrone_table_300dpi-e1518797713474.jpg)
finished table at 'slow' exhibition
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mischertraxler_SchlossHollenegg_Isochrone_table-detail_300dpi-1200x800.jpg)
detail of the various layers
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/vdw-hollenegg_1a-807x1200.jpg)
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.
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/swarowski_table_w_bowl.jpg)
table no.4 in 'light refraction' colours
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/mischertraxler_isochrone_tabletop_2017-e1518797860538-800x1200.jpg)
table in light refraction colours
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_1680.jpg)
detail of the emerging bowl shape
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_0872-1200x800.jpg)
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.
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_0882-Kopie.jpg)
rolling the 'dough'
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_1707.jpg)
small single layers model of the first table
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/colourcomposition-e1522052669763-1200x890.jpg)
colour composition for the table no.3
![](https://mischertraxler.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mischertraxler_isochrone_exhibition_setup.jpg)
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.
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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
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team
Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Maria Bauhofer, Elisa Polner