April 28th, 2010

Osko+Deichmann – Dainty from Berlin

Some years ago the Berlin designers Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann had been confronted with a problem: like many people from Berlin they love suhsi. And like many others they are not able to finish a maki roll to an aesthetic and culinary delicacy. OSKO+DEICHMANN solved the problem the german way. They made an invention! The SUSHI ROLLER was the first successful product by the two Berlin guys and starting point of a great career. Products by the young designers where showcased at the LOUVRE Paris, the VITRA Design Museum and GUGGENHEIM Berlin.

Today Osko+Deichmann focus their creativity on interior design. On the BERLIN SQUARE in Shanghai they are represented with one of their latest projects the PEBBLE CHAIR. In their studio they noticed a small, beautifully rounded pebble. It was dark grey, very smooth and had a neat white line running across it. The line as a graphic element, together with the pebble’s pleasant form and texture, became the base for the design in PEBBLE.

Currently the HELMRINDERKNECHT gallery in Berlin-Mitte presents a collection of tubular steel furniture by the design-duo Osko+Deichmann. The tubing used in the furniture is not bent  – as is normally the case – but rather functionally folded, dented and kinked. The chairs, tables and other furniture derive their final form and function by means of this intentional process of damaging the tubular steel: the process’ traces, which would normally be regarded as defects, are in fact integral to the furniture’s design.

The exhibition is opened until 22 May.