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Repose Sofa

given them a new identity, but at the same space, and it was an open plan space, I DW-What pieces are coming up that we
time I put a lot of emphasis in expressing wanted to create a piece of furniture that can look forward to? Anything exciting?
the essence and the characteristics of the was aesthetically pleasing from all angles. Any exciting pieces that you are working
woods. It's a lot of paradoxes and ironies on at the moment?
then that. DW-What are some of your favourite Adam:
pieces you’ve designed? Yes, I've got a new dining table, new
DW-What is the process that goes into Adam: dining chair. They're called ‘More and
making these tables? I guess Repose is great and it's doing Amore’, amor meaning love. ‘More and
Adam: really well overseas. Frank Barstool Amore’ just means more love, right?
We did a lot of experimenting with has become quite an iconic piece for Because I think that's something that we
sand casting, basically you're pouring something that's so stripped down and can all benefit from. I love asymmetry.
liquid molten metal, which is around lean and minimalist, it actually says a lot Everything is sort of asymmetrical,
2000 degrees Celsius into a sand cast. This with it's whole less is more philosophy, it's everything is beautifully in discord, so
cast by the nature of the material is very saying a lot with very little, so that's really the ‘More and Amore’ table is, again, a
rough and raw, we are intentionally doing nice. exploration of asymmetry. The legs are
quite crude casting, so it's intentionally I am really just enjoying playing with irregularly placed, it's not rectilinear. It is
imperfect, and that way it's unpredictable. materials and experimenting with shape shaped in an awkward way but it manages
You don't know what you are going to and form at the moment, and I'm really to achieve balance at the same time. ‘More
get every time you cast, you are kind of liking these one off pieces and limited and Amore’ series of tables and chairs are
leaving it to nature in a way. series pieces, they allow me to be a lot coming very soon. dw
In some ways we are interfering more self-indulgent. I studied fine art
when we shape the wood. We are also and sculpture at college, so it's kind of me www.okha.com
expressing the beauty of the wood, and going back to that, those roots.
we are allowing certain natural things and
beautiful accidents to happen with the
sand casting processes. Absolutely every Repose Sofa
single piece is unique.

DW-Tell us more about the Repose Sofa?
Adam:
It is very much a landscape. It is a
very sculptural piece. The Repose Sofa
came about through an interior design
project that I was working on. It was a
very difficult space, a very awkward space,
hence the shape: the sofa was to fit in that

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