In Cape Town, NØDE design studio’s Charles Haupt and Gerrit Giebel blend technically settled design with hand-crafted textures. For a period of time, the pair introduced NØDE from the Bronze Age studio to bind to aluminium furnishings and interior goods manufacturing. The methodology of the studio stresses human contact with materials and surfaces and the ongoing development of hand-cutting techniques into metal.
| The Intermission Bench is NØDE’s first limited-edition furniture piece. The bench is produced out of a single piece of 20mm-thick, aeroplane-grade aluminium plate, which was heat-treated to several hundred degrees Celsius and bent with an 80-ton press. Then came the process of laboriously hand-carving the surface to hollow out the seating area and achieve its final texture. “Our technique transforms the dull metal, giving it tangibility and depth,” says Charles Haupt. With its anodised finish, a result is an object of simplistic, yet sculptural shape that is refined in its form. |
