Architect and designer Manu Bañó explores the reflective qualities of copper along with his OBJ-08 mirrors, launched as a part of the Distinctive Design X honest at Mexico Metropolis artwork week.
Produced by hammering, shaping and sharpening a skinny sheet of copper, the gathering by Bañó is fashioned totally from a single materials without having for lacquers, coatings or adhesives.
“The thought, as in all of the items in my assortment, is to change the form of a sheet of metallic with a repeated motion – on this case, hand hammering and sharpening,” Bañó informed Dezeen.
“By hammering, little by little, the specified form and performance is achieved. There may be nothing added, it’s all copper.”
The OBJ-08 assortment includes two items – the Wall Mirror and Flooring Mirror – every composed of two symmetrical items which can be designed to be displayed as a duo.
The Wall Mirror has a tarnished copper floor and is made up of two round sheets of copper, one formed to be concave and the opposite convex.
Matching in texture, the Flooring Mirror has a free-standing rectangular body with equivalent indentations on two sides which can be polished to a excessive shine.
Manufactured by artisans in Mexico, the items are produced by hammering heated copper sheets onto a mould to control them into the specified form.
As soon as formed, the remaining flat space is polished till a reflective floor is achieved.
Hammering particulars add texture to the items, contrasting with their polished and mirrored centres.
“Due to its properties, copper is the one metallic that may be labored on this means,” Bañó stated.
“It may be heated, hammered, reheated, re-hammered and infrequently even mirror polished. I prefer to push supplies to the restrict of their properties.”
OBJ-08 was unveiled in collaboration with Gallery Collectional at Distinctive Design X – a nomadic honest for collectible design that befell in Mexico Metropolis this yr.
Bañó is a co-founder of design studio EWE Studio based mostly in Mexico Metropolis, with earlier initiatives together with an oxidised metal lamp modelled on sheets of paper.
Different initiatives that capitalise on the reflective properties of copper embrace a meditation house clad with copper in Bali and a museum in Shanghai completed with an arched copper shell.
The pictures is by Alejandro Ramírez Orozco.
OBJ-08 was on present as a part of Distinctive Design X at Mexico Metropolis artwork week from 8 to 11 February 2024. For extra exhibitions, talks and festivals in structure and design go to Dezeen Occasions Information.
