This Surcore design studio explores the limits of production and manufacturing using various sustainable materials to design furniture, products and spaces. In just three years of existence, our founders, Hwachan Lee and Yooomin Maeng, collaborated with an array of brands and customers, offering a wide variety of designs in the field of three-dimensional design and the collection Kerf Plastic Our interests are particularly high, there is the emergence of a more globally titled experimental project World Play, which explored new approaches to materiality and construction.
© Kuo Duo
© Kuo Duo
Therefore, the two designers used recycled plastic panels and the curved technology of the wood to make a chair, a groove and a bench to Re;code, a Korean brand of clothing. “Descubrimos que este material es my parecido al contrachapado”, explican les designers, “e intentamos aplicar la técnica Kerf Bending, used for curving madera on a recycled plastic board". Así, these plastic panels are tough and rigid are seen white and malleable without the need for heat, pegamento nor chemical processes.
© Kuo Duo
© Kuo Duo
Thanks to the versatility and flexibility of this biomaterial, Kuo Duo offers several models with vibrant and abstract surfaces that combine functionality and convenience. In concrete terms, the technique has demonstrated its capabilities in the rests, covers and furniture seats with redondeados. As soon as the object demonstrates its potential to be exploited, the main meta of the studio is extended to all types of furniture and three-dimensional objects.
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