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  • 21.3. - 21.9.2025
    exhibition

    our project "the idea of a tree" is part of the 2nd solar biennale "Soleil-s" at the MUDAC in Lausanne.
    Will live production of objects for their permanent collection on the 19.March, 21.June, 21.September

    MUDAC - solar biennale 2

  • ongoing
    permanent installation

    "Vital Rain" is a permanent installation in the museum yard. The installation was commissioned on the occasion of the "water pressure" exhibition in 2024

    MK&G Hamburg

  • ongoing
    interior design

    We developed the interior for the "Direktion - für alle". A multipurpose room in the MAK for workshops, readings, lectures, receptions, or simply as a place to relax.

    MAK

  • 22.5 - 6.7.2025
    exhibition

    our "ratio" project is part of the 13th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial with the topic "Resource(s), Foreseeing the future"

    Design Biennale Saint Etienne

  • 6.6.2025 - 25.1.2026
    exhibition

    the "curiosity cloud-european edition" is part of the exhibition "WEtransFORM European Bauhaus and behond" exhibition. This adapted version represents extinct, endangered and common insects from Europe.

    Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

  • 18.9.2024 - 18.5.2025
    exhibition

    our "access" glasses are part of the exhibition AUT NOW - 100 x Austrian design for the 21st century.

    MAK - AUT NOW

  • 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

  • 2025
    awards

    Happy that the "access" glasses won the PULSE Award and the 3rd place at the Austrian "Neptun-Wasserpreis"

reversed volumes – leaves

a collection of plates that capture the imprint of a leaf

  • year 2014

  • category Products & Furniture

  • produced by

    PCM Design

ficus, dieffenbachia, monstera leaf imprint

reversed volumes plates are shaped by capturing the imprint of various leaves in an existing bowl. The space between the vessel and leaf is filled with casting material. Once dried, the leaf and the vessel are removed and what remains is a new object with both imprints.
They are replicated as food-safe and water proof resin objects. The plates 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 reversed volumes series includes three different plates with imprints of following leaves: dieffenbachia, ficus elastica, monstera
The plates are an addition to the reversed volumes bowls and are produced by PCM Design since 2014.

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

ficus elastica leaf imprint

dieffenbachia leaf imprint

monstera leaf imprint

The space between the vessel and leaf is filled with casting material.
Once dried, the leaf and the vessel are removed and what remains is a new object with both imprints.

making the imprint of a monstera leaf

white prototype cast of a ficus elastica leave and colour indication for production

detail of the dieffenbachia plate structure

  • material

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

  • dimensions

    25 cm – 33 cm

  • production

    serial manufacturing, made in Spain

  • produced by

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Julian Heckel