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STRAW O36

What makes Straw unique is the way in which the tubular steel has been deformed. Instead of forming the frame in gentle bends, the designers Osko + Deichmann have folded the steel tubes. Straw received with the Forum +1 Award at the 2010 Stockholm Furniture Fair.

The City of Berlin approached young German designers there with the mission of interpreting Bauhaus in small separate exhibitions during the 90th anniversary of Bauhaus in 2009. For decades, interpreting Bauhaus was a task that many people have been given or taken on themselves.

With Straw, Osko + Deichmann pay homage to classic tubular steel furniture, while simultaneously challenging convention both visually and physically, and introducing a striking new expression to the canon of the design. The contrast with the otherwise rounded shape of the tube produces a result that seems almost to have been fashioned by hand.