“Pretzel Bench”
designed by: Abie Abdillah
k e r s a | d e s i g n
Rattan is a unique material that mainly from South East Asia, especially from Indonesia which was claimed 70% of worldwide needs for rattan materials are from the country own resources. Why does rattan unique? Rattan as a plant could grow more than 100 meters long and have 600 various kind of species which about only 8% of them are already explored and used as raw material for human needs products.
The other uniqueness of Rattan are the characteristics of the material itself, which are strong, and able to be bend. But yet, it was tricky to create a piece of furniture from rattan materials, since the bendy characters make them need to have various support braces to keep the furniture strong and steady.
And to create a piece of furniture from modular shapes that came from continuous lines of rattan materials, is my attention when create the “Pretzel Bench”. The pretzel shape was taken because it had a continuous line shapes and looped as a rope tie. “Pretzel Bench” was meant to show the most unique of rattan material characteristics, which is the “bendy” character.
designed by: Abie Abdillah
k e r s a | d e s i g n
Rattan is a unique material that mainly from South East Asia, especially from Indonesia which was claimed 70% of worldwide needs for rattan materials are from the country own resources. Why does rattan unique? Rattan as a plant could grow more than 100 meters long and have 600 various kind of species which about only 8% of them are already explored and used as raw material for human needs products.
The other uniqueness of Rattan are the characteristics of the material itself, which are strong, and able to be bend. But yet, it was tricky to create a piece of furniture from rattan materials, since the bendy characters make them need to have various support braces to keep the furniture strong and steady.
And to create a piece of furniture from modular shapes that came from continuous lines of rattan materials, is my attention when create the “Pretzel Bench”. The pretzel shape was taken because it had a continuous line shapes and looped as a rope tie. “Pretzel Bench” was meant to show the most unique of rattan material characteristics, which is the “bendy” character.
