DESIGN
Anniversary Wogg 17 has turned 25
Wogg and designer Benny Mosimann are celebrating a quarter of a century of collaboration. When Mosimann dared to go public with a piece of furniture he called Spanoval in the 1990s it took a lot of courage, as his design had initially met with defeat at the special exhibition of a design competition. But the furniture company saw potential in his concept. The Swiss designer reworked the construction and took a chance with the materials – plastic and aluminium. The result: a piece of storage furniture that was built like Le Corbusier’s pilotis houses with stilts, a base plate and a lightweight shell. A key problem had to be solved to ensure that lightness: how would it be possible for semi-transparent sliding doors to run along narrow metal strips? In the end, Wogg developed the machine to do it itself because it wanted to make sure the trays’ edges were perfectly encased and the doors slid effortlessly around the tower construction. Mosimann has since further developed his concept, adding seven variations to the mix. The W17 is intended as a tower with up to three ‘storeys’ that rest on a narrow aluminium column. Visit: www.wogg.ch
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Interiors Monthly September 2021
