An atelier filled with stories, models, prototypes, products and objects. In this organized chaos Job van den Berg will present a combination of new and old projects. These projects are variating form industrial manufactured products and hand crafted furniture till one of a kind art pieces.
Wood Tube Chair
The Wood Tube Chair is part of the extensive research on the O-Series. Wood has been saved because it is made of wooden tubes instead of solid wood. Veneer is rolled up and glued together into hollow tubes. The material is light wight, strong and saves a lot of wood during the production.
Wooden tubes, wood joinery experiments, laminated curved back, papercord seat.
Metal Skins
A tactile and delicate intervention within an efficient and pragmatic industrial process. Metal, holes & Metal Skins.
Metal Wood Beam Bench
The Metal Chipwood Bench is part of the material and production research on the Metal Skins, where all kinds of materials are used as a mold to press textures into metal. For this bench chipwood is used as a mold to press the texture into polished stainless steel. The texture mirrors the surroundings in a distorted way. Colors, light and shadow of the surroundings will be reflected criss-cross in the surface of the bench and will change constantly when you move around.
– mold: chipwood
– pressure: 6.000.000 kg
– polished stainless steel
– L 180 x D 27 x H 40 cm
– 2023
