"Offices keep buying furniture that looks permanent, which works fine until someone needs the room to do something different. A workshop space becomes a presentation area, a meeting room needs to turn into individual work zones, and nobody wants to wait three days for facilities to show up with screwdrivers. The furniture just sits there looking expensive and immovable while everyone works around it instead of with it."
"PIXEL by Bene is designer Didi Lenz's answer, and it looks almost suspiciously simple. Each piece is a 36 x 36 cm cube made from raw pine plywood with visible grain and knots all over the surface. Lenz says it isn't really furniture, which makes sense when you see people stacking them into benches, flipping them into tables, or just using one as a side storage box with a handle cut into the side."
"The wood is completely untreated, so every cube looks slightly different depending on which part of the tree it came from. Some have dark knots near the corners, others show lighter grain patterns, and the plywood edges are exposed instead of hidden under veneer. It definitely reads as workshop material rather than corporate office product, which seems to be the whole point. You can see the screws holding the corners together."
The PIXEL system uses uniform 36 x 36 cm untreated raw pine plywood cubes with visible grain, knots, exposed plywood edges and visible screws. Each cube includes cutout handles for carrying and folding to connect units side by side. Cubes stack to form benches, tables, storage, or can receive a white laminate top or casters for rolling surfaces. PIXEL Rack adds metal frames to convert stacks into shelving, semi-transparent room dividers, and supports for whiteboards and plants. The aesthetic reads as intentionally unfinished workshop material, prioritizing fast, on-the-spot reconfiguration of office spaces without facilities help.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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