Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard by Giuseppe Santacroce is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2020
Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard
Client: Giuseppe Santacroce
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
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About Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard
This product manifests an essential design, which connects function and idea through precise craftsmanship. The project wants to describe the moments spent today in the kitchen, often lived in a frenetic way. The legs of the sideboard simulate a fast movement, like a run. The main feature of this product is the material: it is made entirely of centenary olive tree. The Designer says that the timber was obtained from some specimens felled due to a land deficit, which brought these trees to the end of their life cycle. This project was made entirely by hand.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The idea was to capture the moments spent today in the kitchen. Every day life pushes us to live with frenzy the common areas of private life. This furniture wants to tell how we live our life. The legs of the sideboard simulate a frenetic movement, almost running.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
When I started designing this product, I thought of something that could characterize my kitchen, without upsetting it. My goal was to tell a fundamental moment in our life. Rediscovering the values and importance of living our homes. Do not run away from the common areas of the house to take refuge in solitude, but use the kitchen as a sharing environment.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
This element is a starting point, to rediscover the beauty of living our homes. I would like to continue promoting this concept, through this product and with subsequent collections.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to capturing the frenetic energy of modern kitchen life through the Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard's dynamic leg design is fascinating - could you elaborate on how this conceptual journey evolved from initial observation to final form?
Of course, I wanted to crystallize the moment when I realized we were rushing too fast, when I felt like moments of sharing and conviviality were slipping away. My (already rare) moments spent joking or talking with loved ones were frozen for a moment by the image of running legs, and so I wanted to express that rush through the gestures of the sideboard's legs.
The use of centenary olive wood in the Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard speaks to both sustainability and heritage - what inspired you to choose this specific material, and how did working with such historically significant timber influence your design decisions?
As you rightly said, it is a material with a strong history, and through its history I want to convey my Mediterranean roots, with the dream of leaving a distinctive mark with my creations.
The handcrafted nature of the Static Movement Kitchen Sideboard creates unique variations in each piece - how does this aspect of individuality through wood grain patterns align with your philosophy about the relationship between mass production and artisanal craftsmanship?
This aspect only enhances my idea of a "unique piece". Static Movement is a unique product because it was conceived by my mind and my feelings, and the grain contributes to making each piece unique even for the end customer.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The main characteristic is the material: it is made entirely in centennial olive tree. The timber was obtained from some specimens cut down due to a land deficit, that brought these trees to the end of their life cycle.
This project has a linear and clean design, wants to make your space unique, and another nice feature is that there will not be two alike, as the veins change from specimen to specimen.
The project has been made entirely by hand, conscious of working one of the most fine woods in the world. - Dimensions & Packaging
- W. 1200mm, D. 500mm, H. 1620mm.
- Tags
- Handmade, wooden, wood, craftsmanship, function, sideboard, kitchen, made in Italy, design
- Production Technology
- The project has been made entirely by hand.
The sideboard was made in centennial Olive wood.
Doors and drawers equipped with slow closing. - Design Challenge
- I drew a lot to find a unique, particular and delicate feature.
I always draw with the pen so that I cannot erase errors and corrections and I always keep the initial drawing in mind to simplify it more and more.
After studying the meaning and shape, I try to resume the drawing to make it as simple as possible, taking into account the functions and characteristics that I want to give to the project. - Research
- When I started designing this product, I thought of something that could characterize my kitchen, without upsetting it.
After studying function and form, I transport the project into modeling software to establish ideal measurements and standard. This project has a main function as a container with 2 high drawers and 2 large low drawers and two aesthetic characteristics, the legs that create a game of movement, and the material, that is, the centenary olive wood. - Inspiration
- The idea was to capture the moments spent today in the kitchen.
Every day life pushes us to live with frenzy the common areas of private life. This furniture wants to tell how we live our life.
The legs of the sideboard simulate a frenetic movement, almost runnig. - Project Duration
- The project started in July 2019 and finished in September 2019, in Milan, Italy.
- Operation Flow
- This product was born as a sideboard for your kitchen, made entirely by hand, in a noble and ancient wood. But its linear shape and its essential design, with particular legs, allow the product to be placed without problem in different rooms of the house. The quality of materials and accessories make it functional in any situation.
- Patents
- No patents
- Image Credits
- Main image #1: Photographer Giuseppe Santacroce
Optional image #1: Photographer Giuseppe Santacroce
Optional image #2: Photographer Giuseppe Santacroce
Optional image #3: Photographer Giuseppe Santacroce
Optional image #4: Photographer Giuseppe Santacroce
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