Bronzo Arredamento · 2023
Gere Mensola portastoviglie
- A' Design Award di Bronzo 2023 in Arredamento
- CLIENT: Florian Beser
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 11,780
- Verification code 80ED1E6750 · Verify this award
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About Gere Mensola portastoviglie
Gere è una mensola portastoviglie multifunzionale, pensata per cucine e sale da pranzo di piccole dimensioni. I piatti di Gere compongono il fronte della mensola, quasi fosse un rilievo, così che lo spazio interno resti libero per tazze, bicchieri e altre stoviglie. La mensola è realizzata in legno di rovere, mentre i piatti sono colati in porcellana. Gere si appende alla parete e le singole file possono essere ribaltate verso il basso per prelevare un piatto o per accedere agli oggetti riposti all'interno. La struttura a griglia consente dimensioni scalabili in base alle esigenze dei diversi nuclei familiari. Il servizio di stoviglie è ampliabile in modo modulare.
About the A' Design Award di Bronzo
Gere Mensola portastoviglie ha vinto l'A' Design Award di Bronzo, un riconoscimento altamente prestigioso conferito a design eccezionali che si distinguono per creatività, ingegno e astuzia. I vincitori di Bronzo sono manufatti ampiamente abili e sorprendentemente creativi che autenticano la vasta esperienza, l'immaginazione e l'intraprendenza dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Gere Mensola portastoviglie sia un oggetto molto apprezzato, ammirato e amato, notevolmente professionale e innovativo. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award di Bronzo incorpora le migliori pratiche dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia, ed è eccellente per l'attenzione al dettaglio. Gere Mensola portastoviglie soddisfa splendidamente i bisogni, tocca i desideri, affascina i sentimenti e attira la curiosità.
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- Unique Properties
- Gere as the combination of shelf and plates uses its plates to create the relief-like front of the shelf. The thereby free interior space can be used to store more crockery, cups, glasses, etc.
The gridlike structure of Gere allows scalable sizes of the shelf, so that a family can use a bigger Gere than a single household. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Gere-plates: 240mm x 240mm x 20mm
Gere-shelf-prototype: 1200mm x 200mm x 1300mm
(the size of the shelf varies, because it can be personalised) - Tags
- ceramic, tableware, furniture, multifunctional, wood, shelf, plate, kitchen
- Production Technology
- To enable the functional interaction of shelf and plates, material properties had to be calculated. The shelf of Gere consists out of oak wood, because it is local, sturdy and insensitive against water. The plates of Gere were concepted using 3D-graphic-software and then 3D-printed. The resulting objects were translated to plaster mold and finally cast in porcelain.
- Design Challenge
- The project was created during the first year of the corona pandemic. There were a lot of restrictions on the use of workshops and the purchase of materials. During the process, i was challenged with iterations, new processing techniques such as working with a cnc milling machine and calculating material properties such as porcelain-shrinkage and material waste.
- Research
- During the research process multiple methods such as a survey, a market analysis, interviews with the target group and the user journey map were used.
This resulted in detailed insights about selling points for kitchen-shelfs and plates, storage in kitchens, structuring items in the kitchen and overall interaction points with shelfs and plates. - Inspiration
- Housing is becoming smaller. Space has to be used in a meaningful way. People use minimalism to reduce their possessions and multifunctional products to save space.
The inspiration of the project were small kitchen spaces with large shelfs, filled with staples of round plates that leave lots of unused space. The focus of the project was to create a crockery shelf as small as needed by people in small housing. - Project Duration
- The project started in early summer 2020 in Aachen and finished in September 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Gere is ideally hung on the wall in the kitchen or dining room. Individual rows can be folded down to take stored items out of the inside or to remove a plate from the front. The plates have segments so that the main course and the side dish can be placed separately on one plate and thus be transported easily. In addition to the storage space in the front, there is the option of storing more crockery, cups, glasses, etc. on the shelves behind. The crockery set is modularly expandable.
- Image Credits
- Images: Photographer Janosch Bartsch, Gere, 2020
