Who does not know Hasenkopf, for those of you lovers of modern furniture design, the company name is definitely not a stranger in your ear. German industrial manufacture company Hasenkopf produces modern design pieces by experimenting with shape and materials. The team of architects and designers create the Design Characters collection in which they completely dedicate themselves to making innovative furniture design. The series represents an experiment with different forms, materials and techniques that results into unique individual design ideas. Its purpose is to go beyond the limits and provoke designers to consider new possibilities and solutions.
Several famous designers and architects take part in the innovative furniture design collection of the Hasenkopf company. They develop their own ideas on kitchen, bathroom and workspace modern design, each having an individual character. Among the designers are Stuart A. Veech with his Hydra XXL, Paul Flowers with Workflow, and Titus Bernhard and Peter Martin with their collaboration on Twister and Swan.With its Design Characters series, the Hasenkopf company – a manufacturing specialist that produces both on industrial-scale and a one-off basis – is deliberately pushing the envelope of what is feasible when it comes to the processing and deformation of such vastly different materials as Corian, Parapan or acrylic. Hasenkopf’s aim in producing the series is not to develop prototypes for future lines but to experiment with forms, materials and processing techniques that point to unusual individual solutions and are intended to encourage architects and designers to rethink the limits. Well-known designers and architects are asked to develop their own interpretation of new living environments for the kitchen, bathroom and workstation. The first sequence has already been produced and includes objects by Stuart A. Veech, Paul Flowers, Titus Bernhard and Peter Martin.
Hydra XXL by Stuart A. Veech is a unit consisting of shower, washbasin and bathtub elements; the individual functions flow into one another to create a single ergonomic entity that brings these key bathroom activities together. The Workflow workstation by Paul Flowers is based on the conceptual exploration of what a workstation actually signifies. The shelves represent the space that provides the user with knowledge and information. The knowledge flows out of the shelves and over the desk to the person working at it. The curvaceous kitchen module by the name of Twister is a joint project by Titus Bernhard (Titus Bernhard Architects, Augsburg) and Peter Martin (Martin et Karczinski). It visualises the connection between cooking and eating and calls attention to the flow of movements that takes place in a kitchen, from the preparation of the food all the way to the emotional presentation of the meal. Swan – another joint project – is a combination of shower and bathtub and features forms that are evocative of the proud, majestic bird that inspired it.