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ELIAS VAN ORSHAEGEN

Elias Van Orshaegen covers a variety of projects that range from custom pieces, made to measure to more limited editions.

Infos

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Bio

Graduated in 2019 at the postgraduate furniture design in Mechelen, Elias Van Orshaegen covers a variety of projects that range from custom pieces, made to measure to more limited editions. Rooted in a hands-on investigation he explores materials, techniques, waste streams and their use. Challenging our perceptions, his approach entails a thinking doing philosophy where intuition plays a central role.

Objects

GUARO

GUARO, 2021
Side table
Tropical wood and second life aluminium
55 cm x 40 cm x 32 cm

Tropical remnants of seventy-year-old train car floors enter into dialogue with excess and scratched aluminum. Reflecting a distant past and a near present, they breathe the characteristic grain of a lifetime of use. Both analogously echo their surroundings, showing us how the intuitive, sensory desire for the reuse of materials touches the object in its purest form.

eliasvanorshaegen-adc_side_object_-2022_-_cbrent_herdewyn.jpg — © Brent Herdewyn

ASTOR

Table lamp, 2021
Second life glass bricks, second
life steel tubes (overordered
from oil and gas industry)
H 26cm x D10cm

Astor lighting, a collaboration with Robbe Stevens, is a table lamp made of steel tubes surplus and glass bricks which were initially used in cement facades. These glass cylinders were inserted in concrete walls enabling light to shine through. Wanting to preserve their connection to light, the designer used them horizontally and let the light shine out from within.

POST PANDEMIC LOVE SEAT

POST PANDEMIC LOVE SEAT, 2021
Bench
Polished stainless steel
L 150 cm x W 40 cm x H 45 cm

An idea that came alive during the second lockdown, a bench which makes us sit closer to each other. A curved aluminium plate of one meter fifty, symbolising the social distance, poetically brings the users closer together again. A new, fully polished version will be presented at the SaloneSatellite.

Statera

STATERA, 2022
Mirror
Steel and chromed aluminium
140 cm x 120 cm x Ø 40 cm

Statera mirrors in motion is an intuitive search for purity where the mirror acts through equilibrium and moves through wind. It gives a dreamy reflection of reality and focuses on balance.
A collaboration with Brent Herdewyn & Gijs Notelteirs. A new version with a chromed aluminium mirror contrasting with raw steel will be presented at the SaloneSatellite.