Komplot Design
Founded in 1987, Komplot Design, a partnership of the Danish architect Poul Christiansen (born 1947) and the Russian industrial and graphic designer Boris Berlin (born 1953), has designed furniture and created multidisciplinary design solutions for both Danish and international companies, including Le Klint and Lightyears.
Komplot Design’s multidisciplinary activities within product, furniture and graphic design, from tractor to office furniture systems and to brochures and corporate identity programmes, are not only giving the complexity of design approach, but also positioning their design into the electric field of intense exchange of experience and attitudes of different branches.
GROUNDBREAKING
DESIGN
As well as a wide range of other pieces, Komplot is the studio behind GUBI’s landmark 3D Chair. Launched in 2003, this groundbreaking design was the first to incorporate threedimensional veneer technology into its production. Paving the way for a wider family of sleek, innovative and versatile signature furniture, it has earned a place in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and won the Danish Design Prize (2004) and the Red Dot Award (2004).
ACCEPTING THE
MATERIAL
According to Christiansen and Berlin, good design is more than just a solution to the primary functional problem – form should follow not just function, but natural material behaviors. Instead of fighting against material characteristics in a bid to overcome natural imperfections, they resist the urge to control, choosing to accept the way any given material wants to behave – ‘the way its nature tells it to move.’
LIBERATED AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH
Likewise, they refuse to be pigeonholed into any one discipline or tradition, and instead employ a liberated and experimental approach, informed by their own differing cultural backgrounds, educational training and life experiences.
Working at the intersection of disciplines, attitudes and approaches, within different countries and cultures, they are able to access a design problem from multiple perspectives simultaneously, taking inspiration from varied sources. As a result, their work feels deeply personal, while embodying universal cultural, philosophical, aesthetic and poetic themes.
INTERMEDIARY DESIGN
They describe design as an intermediary - a link between art and engineering, between manufacturing and the end user, between different cultures, between tradition and innovation, rationality and intuition, logic and emotion.
Bridging and balancing these tensions - combined with a sharp eye for the latest production techniques - has enabled them to both continue and renew Danish design traditions, while setting the pace for international developments.
The GUBI 3D Chair can be seen in use at the new World Trade Centre and MoMA’s ‘Café 2’ restaurant in New York, at Copenhagen and Los Angeles airports, and in Zaha Hadid’s extension to Danish art gallery Ordrupgaard.
Christiansen and Berlin are considered among Denmark’s most innovative contemporary designers working today, a
fact that was recognized in 2015, when they were awarded
the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
GUBI 3D Lounge Chair
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