I have a soft spot for metal in interior design. Always on the lookout for the next shiny object, piece of furniture or design item, I’m like a magpie. My favorites are pieces by young designers, and a long-time favorite is Obscure Objects. Architect Luisa Pöpsel and designer Moritz Pitrowski are behind the obscure name and the not-so-obscure furniture. Their collaboration began with the Chunk stool, created by the two of them by hand. This was followed by lamps, chairs, egg cups, bedside tables (often as by-products of the redesign of their own home, for they had clear ideas). The redesign could be followed in detail on Instagram, where Luisa and Moritz also share their daily sources of inspiration — furniture on the streets, geometric shapes and exciting everyday objects. As promised, the duo’s material palette is often metallic — sometimes polished, sometimes brushed, never painted. Raw use is important to them. The natural color of materials is the focus of their designs, changing at most through the structure of the surface and light reflections. Obscure Objects also use wood and cork, leather and glass, alone or in combination with metal. Most recently, they created a handbag in collaboration with Now How, a Japanese label based in Berlin, made of leather and aluminum. Incidentally, Luisa and Moritz make their designs themselves, in Berlin, alongside their full-time jobs. According to the dictionary, obscure means something vague, undefined, unclear. I don’t know if this name is appropriate. What I do know is Obscure Objects are exciting, simple and clever, and wonderfully metallic.
Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Alina Riabenko, Konstantin Walther, Thomas Ehm
Obscure Objects are always part of pop-ups, in and outside Berlin. Soon in Milan for the Salone del Mobile.
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