Specimen Coffee Table By Batten And Kamp

Specimen coffee table by Batten and KampDimensions: D110 x H30 cmMaterials: Cast aluminium, granite stone, tempered low iron glass.The coffee table ‘Specimen’ features an aluminium casting of a gnarled branch and a cut and polished granite boulder in a cyclical composition under a sheet of glass. The casting is suspended by many thin legs in a structure loosely reminiscent of the support material used in 3D printing or the way an entomologist might pin an insect specimen in their archive.Batten and Kamp launch a new collection of sculptural furniture inspired by New Zealand and science fiction.The Hong Kong based, New Zealand design duo’s limited edition ‘functional sculptures’ are born of their mixed interests in nature and science fiction and are being launched at a new solo exhibition in DecemberBatten and Kamp is a creative partnership between interior architect Alexandra Batten and designer or artist Daniel Kamp. The duo creates one of a kind furniture, objects, installations, and interiors with clients and collaborators in Hong Kong, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific. Their projects have received accolades around the world, most recently their ‘Shelter to Ground’ collection was published in esteemed cultural publications such as Design Boom and Design Anthology.“Our work is a pursuit of raw beauty, of poetry in three dimensions. Art and design, creation and curation, product, sculpture, interiors, architecture - all of it - or none of it. Just beauty.”.