Hasta La Ideas

The Varnish Table, top and the FX10 Stripped, pictured bottom.

For Vienna Design Week’s Passionswege, Graz-based White Elephant design lab collaborated with Neue Wiener Werkstatte &mdash an established, family-run furniture and upholstery business based in Styria, Austria &mdash to create five furniture pieces based on the techniques used in the company’s workshops, breaking open upholstered furniture and making poetry out of the production process.

At their opening, we spoke with Tobias Kestel, one half of White Elephant, who provided some insights into the lab’s collaboration with NWW. He discussed time capsules, inner voids, stalactites, seeing the world from the Moon and the future of the industrial designer.

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