The architect- and designerduo Edwards Moore is behind the bar stools offcut, recently launched at the State of Design Festival in Melbourne, Australia. The chairs were dispalyed as a part of the interior in a licensed, working bar, and was part of the project Raising the Bar. Architects and desginers were invited to create bar interior from all recycled material.
Offcut is mainly made from leftovers from the timberindustry - offcuts. Pieces in different shape and size have been put toghether to form a fully functonally bar stool. The top has been polished and treated with linseedoil, putty and wax, thus creating a smooth, slender surface. The design, with its variations in colour and texture, brings to mind violently treated jetsam. The bindings makes the mind wander to the temporariliness of the artwork. The idea of recycling is carved into the object itself: wood has been put together to form a functional form, but might just as easy be taken apart again.
Edwards Moore is the two architects Ben Edwards and Juliet Moore. Their philosophy is about combining their different and sometimes contradictory points of wiev to a unit. The duo have created everything from buildings to regreeningprograms.
