For the launch of MCQ’s icon GROW UP, I designed 15 + 1 AP oversized planters to be placed in their stores across America, Asia and the United Kingdom. In collaboration with Santa-Barbara-based aluminium manufacturer Neal Feay I experimentally anodised the pieces by hand in colours and a tie-dye style inspired by the GROW UP collection and rolled and bolted them into their circular shape.
Anodised aluminium
67cm x 76cm (D x H)
is a product design studio in London (UK).
When he first made his now signature wicker and aluminium stools and benches in 2018 for a show at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, German-born (1986, Forchheim) Tino Seubert found that they opened up a whole new design philosophy for him. They became the starting point for his future projects, which all revel in the juxtaposition of the organic and the industrial and enjoy the exploration of unconventional contexts. For Seubert, the organic is often a welcoming entry point into his work, with people from different countries drawn in by familiar traditional craft elements, only to be tantalised by the clash with sleek, precise industrial design. As a designer, he thrives off an energetic participation in the processes that go into making his pieces: whether it’s wood and stonework or metal machining, electronics or anodising aluminium by hand, Seubert is always obsessively engaged with the detail of his creations.
