NØDE

NØDE design studio seeks to highlight the connections between the various components in its designs and between its different fabrication methods. Co-founders Charles Haupt and Gerrit Giebel share a background in industrial design and an appreciation for handcrafted manufacturing. The studio’s approach emphasizes human interaction with materials and surfaces, as well as constant development into methods of hand cutting textures into metal. This has been refined to a point where NØDE is able to hand carve and therefore sculpt in metals like aluminium. One of its first products, the NØDE stool, was longlisted in the 2019 Dezeen Awards in the seating design category.

The Intermission Bench is produced out of a single piece of 20 mm thick, airplane-grade aluminium plate. Due to the plate’s thickness, it was necessary to heat treat the aluminium to several hundred degrees Celsius, as well as use an 80 ton press in order to bend down the sides. Countless hours of hand carving ensued, with emphasis on the hollowing out of the seating area, as well as the final surface texture. With its anodised finish, the result is an object of simplistic, yet sculptural shape that is refined in its form.

Materials: Hand-carved anodised aluminium