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Tectonica
FLAT PACK STONE FURNITURE ?
Tectonica is the first of a series of flat pack items made in resin. This coffee table was developed by two emerging designers Paül Ordoñez and Juliano Fogaça Santos Lima for the Melbourne Fringe furniture Exhibition 2015 series.
DIMENSIONS & MATERIALS
505 (W) x 1075 (L) x 337 (H); tabletop and legs are both 40mm thick.
Polyester resin, Victorian bluestone and steel.
BETWEEN THE LINES | BRIEF
The design shaves away unnecessary bulk to express the structure of the object, communicating rather than concealing the strength of the stone.
Further, the materials used embody a deliberately organic language, conveying their stories, origins and the connection that exists between these natural elements.
INSPIRATION
Tectonica draws inspiration from three themes:
The rough Galapagos landscape
Incan traditional buildings structures
The replication of bone growth.
SLOTING FURNITURE
Owing to the substantial weight of the table, it has been designed as a flat pack item, providing ease of transport and reassembly.
EXPERIMENTATION
The Real Challenge was to merge two contrasting materials, resin and stone, into a coherent whole. Although resin is strong, durable and pliable, it can easily shatter if impacted by a hard object. On the other hand, stone is a hard and very strong material, but less workable.
VOLCANIC ENERGY
As an emerging designer I like to push boundaries. I take the concept of ready-to-assemble furniture to more experimental levels. With the use of resins, stone and recycled material I attempt to evoke lava flow, amber and erosion in the ever-changing design industry.
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