Design talk: Hotspotz designer Sudden Object Studio highlighted

This short talk will introduce you to Sudden Object Studio, one of the designers with unique products present at Hotspotz – upstairs Next Level (the place where color, eye-catchers and designers come together in an inspiring area). More ABOUT THE PRODUCTS Casting Standards, looks to re-energize these un-stylish utensils by deploying a technique of “repair-through-collage”. This project montages existing popular handles to restore forgotten tableware. Now, when you grab the spoon for a sip of soup, you experience a pair of pliers in your hand. An uncanny experience of seeing one tool but feeling another. We handcraft unique and unusual tableware by replacing the standard handles of cutlery with as-found objects such as screwdrivers, toothpaste tubes or hairspray cans. We build molds of these existing objects, in order to recreate them by casting recycled epoxy. Then, we mount each cast onto a piece of tableware (fork, knife, spoon etc.) becoming a surreal tool for the dinner table. The handles are objects we are all used to holding in our hands, but by recasting them onto tableware they act both familiar and strange. MORE ABOUT THE DESIGNERS The studio was founded by three friends: MacAulay Brown, Camille Filbien and Felix Keser. MacAulay and Camille spend their work hours at architectural office OMA. Through Sudden Object, the trio teams up to design and create unexpected objects. Their collection Casting Standards has been shown at Dutch Design week 2024.