ÆTHER/MASS Launches Its First 7 Restricted Objects

After working for greater than 20 years as a product and inside designer, Davy Grosemans was prepared for one thing new. Now, he’s releasing private, experimental objects beneath the title ÆTHER/MASS. This autumn marks the launch of seven restricted objects: a flooring lamp, two bowls, a chair, and three pedestals that can be utilized as stools or aspect tables. All of Grosemans’ objects are influenced by sculpture and structure, utilizing each conventional and fashionable parts. Every is proscribed to a run of 12 items based mostly on the flexibility to maintain making experimental, one-off creations.

Collaborations play an essential roll in ÆTHER/MASS, with the picket items on this launch made with Casimir Ateliers, grasp woodworkers specializing in high-quality stable wooden furnishings. Wim Roggeman, a specialist in high-end customized lighting, collaborated on the lamp. There are not any limits to ÆTHER/MASS’s collaboration, with future tasks already within the works to cross-fertilize creativity.

The Lathe assortment is versatile, permitting the person to resolve its perform at any given second. Splendid to be used as a stool, aspect desk, or pedestal, the solid-wood designs are modeled after the basic turned leg discovered on tables. On this case, it’s solely the legs that create one thing new.

LATHE

LATHE

LATHE

LATHE

LATHE

PARABOLE BOWL I

Parabole Bowl I and Parabole Bowl II are modular bowls (you learn that proper) that include two an identical items. Relying on placement, you may create a deep or shallow bowl. The bowls’ and chair’s (seen beneath) names  are a nod to the element created by the hollowed out wooden.

PARABOLE BOWL I

PARABOLE BOWL I

PARABOLE BOWL II

PARABOLE BOWL II

PARABOLE BOWL II

PARABOLE CHAIR

PARABOLE CHAIR

PARABOLE CHAIR

PARABOLE CHAIR

TWENTYTWENTY

The TwentyTwenty flooring lamp appears to opal glass lampshades from the Twenties to create a brand new design. That includes a hoop of polished brass that connects two glass shades, this piece is as a lot type as it’s perform.

TWENTYTWENTY

To study extra about ÆTHER/MASS’s restricted objects, go to aethermass.com.

Images by Jean Van Cleemput.

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