klee klee & friends

February, 2022

A display furniture solution, custom-designed to complement the retail space of Klee Klee & Friends in Shanghai, in collaboration with architecture studio CASE PAVILION, highlighting circular material tactility and spatial narrative.

We aim to resist the transient nature of fashion retail display props，transforming into a series of sustainable products intended for everyday use and even sale, crafted with precision and product design standards. Consequently, the furniture design, with its appealing proportioned structure, is driven by principles of functionalism and uses durable metal and solid wood as the primary material choices.

Among the two sets of completed furniture, the metal series is assembled from standard industrial profiles such as steel angle, anodized aluminium plates, and aluminum tubes. The assembly-style folding plate process largely avoids labor-intensive procedures like welding and polishing, resulting in highly efficient material procurement and production. When the furniture is discarded, all main materials and accessories can be easily disassembled for recycling.

Each part of the wooden furniture series is Canadian maple of uniform widths – 15cm or 25cm – derived from conventional log size. Apart from necessary structural mortise and tenon, all decorative cuttings are canceled, preserving as much original material in the finished product as possible.