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ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Henriett Barabás graduated in 2024 from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design with a degree in Industrial Design. Before her studies, she worked as a model for over a decade. The years spent in the fashion industry, along with the various cultures and artistic approaches she encountered during her travels, provided her with a strong foundation, which she now builds upon in the field of industrial design.
Initially, she worked with ceramics, designing tableware for restaurants. She also envisioned a collection of objects for a jewelry brand, which collaboration is still sucessfull. During her university years, she experimented with various materials, with metals eventually becoming a permanent element in her works. Her designs feature a clean, geometric aesthetic. Two of her steel chairs have been featured in several exhibitions and events, and her fountain is currently in use in front of a yoga studio in Budapest.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITED OBJECTS
LOOP chair
In this project, the designer used leftover steel tubes with fixed parameters. The aim was to create an object in which the aesthetic and functional role of the tubes was emphasised. The concept was based around the bending of tubes, using objects that are not traditionally made from tubes. This is how the stepping stool was chosen, but over time the proportions were refined to make the object more of a chair and the step levels more of a footrest. The most promiment part of the chair is the footrest, which is attached to the main frame like a puzzle lock. The connection does not require any extra reinforcement, such as a screw, but rather fixed the structure almost automatically, utilizing the wedge effect. The result is a clean, simple, yet striking form that builds on the properties of the material, while its shapes make it airy.
KARTON chair
The theme of the project is "monolith". The aim was to design a piece of furniture that consists of a single piece, with or without a hidden structure. Starting from the hidden structure, the designer started to think about what objects exist that take shape when they are filled with something, that is, they have a support and structure from the objects inside. For example, you can only sit on a cardboard box if it is full, otherwise it would collapse. It seemed exciting to take the box concept further and replace the structure inside it with the right choice of materials.The chair is made using 3 mm thick fibre-brushed steel sheets, with sheet bending and spot welding used in the machining of the product.
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