London Design Festival 09: Young Coventry designers hundredstensunits have designed their first collection of furniture and products.
The studio was established by Matt Bassett, David Horan and Tom Nelson following their graduation in June last year.
A-Series Storage (above) is inspired by ISO paper sizes, with each unit made from material that is more processed than the one preceding it.
Other designs include an LED lamp with steel frame (top image), a desk with a drawer that opens from either side (above) and a wall clock with an elongated second hand (below).
See all our stories about London Design Festival 2009 in our special category.
Here’s some text from the designers:
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hundredstenunits collection one
Each product was designed to be simple, useful and easy to manufacture; guided by a modernist aesthetic, but not overworked; un-designed, crafted. We are currently prototyping pieces locally in preparation for the London Design Festival in September 2009.
The result of a continuing creative dialogue between Matt Bassett, David Horan and Tom Nelson; hundredstensunits was established in order to design and manufacture simple, beautiful and useful products utilising local resources and expertise.
hundredstensunits is available for consultation, collaboration and commission on an ad hoc basis; services include: product design, NURB surface modelling, visualisation, concept art (from freehand sketches to technical illustration), design for print, logos and branding, web layouts and research.
From top:
A4 Lamp
Steel, Plastics, Electronics
297 x 210 x 72 mm
A specifically developed compact LED array housed in a delicate steel shell.
Table
Anodised Aluminium Surface, Steel Leg-form
1400 x 700 x 700 mm
A large durable working surface precision engineered in steel and aluminium; understated linear simplicity.
A-Series Storage
Oak, Birch Plywood, Oriented Strand Board, Medium Density Fibreboard, Acrylic
1237 x 889 x 297 mm
Inspired by ISO paper sizing. Constructed from different grades of material, each more processed than the last; the units can be used individually or collectively.
Desk + Drawer
Hardwood, Plywood
1500 x 750 x 700 mm
Hand crafted and elegantly ambidextrous; the drawer is accessible from both sides.
Wall Clock
Aluminium Face, Steel Hands, German High Torque Movement
Ø 180 mm
An aesthetic dictated by the disproportionate second hand. The graphical information provided is minimal, yet essential.
Low Table
Veneered Plywood Surface, Steel Leg-form
840 x 590 x 300 mm
A substantial wooden platform disguised by a beveled edge, mounted on an elegant one-piece leg-form.
A-Series Tableware
Modest plastic vessels designed for mass production.
Alan Chair
Steel, Birch Plywood
900 x 730 x 625 mm
Simple, rigid and oversized; sit, perch, place.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
March 26th, 2009 at 2:56 am
The great wheel turns! Though to be fair, Wallpaper* has been pushing this Scandinavian retro look for quite some time. Nice to see objects without ‘personality’ and whose concept is ‘no concept’: fit to purpose and calming in effect. Well done those boys!
March 26th, 2009 at 4:50 am
absolute great design – really pure
March 26th, 2009 at 7:54 am
that golden section /paper sizes shelf is mean!
March 26th, 2009 at 9:04 am
50´s hurray
March 26th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Very cool stuff. Specially liked the drawer and the shelf. Best wishes
March 26th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
it’ll be nice to see if they can actually manufacture the products with elements that thin, especially the table and the desk, looks like there might be a bit of give and things will get wobbly! better not put your coffee down
March 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Classic, minimal and modern.
I’d buy some.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Impressive 3D images / ?
March 26th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
impressive renders. is it maxwell or fryrender?
March 27th, 2009 at 9:05 am
bodkin with the same material Aril Levy did that table
http://www.swedese.se/tables/beam/
March 27th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
^ Zuy why did you post that image ?
March 27th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
damn hot! where can i get some of that stuff
… keep us informed!
March 27th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
i can see why you think of the golden selection xtiaan,
that was the first thing that came to mind with me too.
i think it is weird that they didn’t take all the sizes of
the ISO paper sizes. for example the a4 lamp:
297 x 210 x 72 mm
why the 72 mm? why not take a size that comes back
in the ISO paper size format? like 74mm?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
i think that when one takes a concept you should take
it to extremes and not stop at a certain point.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Toon; I think 74mm is a quater of 297mm? A piece of A4 paper folded into 4 lengthways.
So I think the concept is all there.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Beautiful work. Clocks are quite wonderful….. it all is. Nice job!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
rita,
if it were 74mm you where right!
it is however 72mm in the lamp.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Most certainly different thats for sure. Not something that I would have every in a million years ever thought of designing or creating.