Harry Thaler:
Harry Thaler's work explores the world through reinvented objects and juxtapositions with a surprising and charming elegance. His elaborate designs are built on a foundation of traditional techniques and high quality craftsmanship creating a sensation of timelessness in his work. Harry’s background as goldsmith and craftsman has a strong effect on his design process. Therefore a rich and layered body of work emerges implying functionality and elegance as essential characteristics. Harry graduated from the Royal College of Art in Product Design in June 2010 and was praised with the Conran Award 2010 as well as with the Interior Innovation Award 2011 in Cologne for his Pressed Chair. Apart from taking part in numerous exhibitions and fairs, Harry has also been commissioned for various public and private projects. Since 2008 he is based in London and has opened his own studio.
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Long table
The table consists of wooden sections that are held together internally with a lock mechanism, so it can be extended to different lengths depending on the number of guests. The boxes are made in different types of solid wood: walnut, oak, maple, birch.
SQUISH (Doorstop)
Based on the shape of a paint tube, Squish can either be used as a doorstop or as a weight.
Material: casted iron
Twist & Lock
Twist and Lock is a shelf system, which can be assembled by locking these crates together with the especially created tools. According to the personal needs, this system can be used in different ways, such as a bookshelf, wine shelf ect..
Material: crates: apple wood, tools: pet
Pressed chair
Pressed chair is a light, stackable metal chair stamped out of a 2.5 mm aluminium sheet.
The value of the design excels in the intent of creating a piece out of one single material
without any joints or connectors. Furthermore the manufacturing produces no waste material
and is 100% recyclable.
Photographer: © Jäger & Jäger
Bench for Living Kampill 09
This bench is part of the interior design I was commissioned to do for Living Kampill, an apartment residence in Bolzano (Italy).
Material: solid larch wood and Loden fabric.
Photographer: Marion Lafogler
Compressed Air Bike with Nicola Zocca
It’s more than simple: compressed air helps you to cycle. If the air tank is empty, just refill at the next gas station - but at the air pump, please.
www.nicolazocca.com
Bench
Bench was a commissioned project by the village of Silandro (Italy) to design new seating possibilities in its public space.
Material: treated larch wood and powder coated metal
"StandART-lamp" for Living Kampill
This lamp is part of the interior design I was commissioned to do for Living Kampill, an apartment residence in Bolzano (Italy). StandArt-lamp is made of five simple parts and it’s adjustable in height.
Material: oak wood
Stairs
Different sized, wooden boxes, one put over the other and glued together, become stairs. No nails, no screws.
for Kajsa and Maki (London).
Enjoy It
Enjoy Your Meal is a set of wooden tongs, only 5mm wide - light and to use with only one hand.
Hang it on the Wall
This series of lightbulb shaped lamps speaks to our nostalgia and responds to the phasing out of the iconic Edisson lightbulb. The object is inseparable from its metaphorical connotations; Edison’s lightbulb represents ‘the lightbulb’ to our generation and simultaneously symbolises the moment of epiphany in pictorial form. The shape of the lamp is an act of preservation, it retains the iconic lightbulb whilst still moving with the times. Given the growing realisation of the threat our habits pose to our planet humans have been forced to take a more ecological approach to energy use.Materials used: Borosilicate glass, halogen bulb
Tis Award
Organic, growth and innovative, original methods is the challenge for the TIS Award. Spheres are melted into each other, creating new networks.www.tis.bz.it
Material: Rapid prototyping
Esxhibition 1 Barrel
28 May 2008 - 21 June 2008
Galerie Erwin Seppi (Italy)
www.erwinseppi.org
Photographer: Georg
Khuen Belasi
The converted oil barrels remind us of colossal, crushed drink cans. The oil barrel seat invites you to sit back and relax but simultaneously seems grotesque and surreal given its political agenda. Made out of contemporary memorials, the barrels refer to the oil war and piles of rubbish.
Material: High gloss polished oil barrel
Photographer: Georg Khuen Belasi
Film: 1 Barrel by Harry Thaler
The doors to Art
A project for the office of Manifesta 7 in Bolzano. All the office furniture is made out of old doors. In collaboration with Walter Thaler.
Photographer: Marion Lafogler
www.manifesta7.it
Lapchair
A surprising combination between the common Thonet backrest and an abstract shaped seat: a hint of a woman´s lap that invites you to sit down and get comforatable.
Material: Plaster, foam
Stopp it
The drain plugs of kayaks easily get lost in the whitewater. Followed by: nerve-wracking searches for a suitable locking parts. Stopp it is a product that putsan end to this search. The solution of this problem is as easy as brilliant. The standard drain plugs are replaced by the usual thread of a common plastic bottle. Now every top fits!
Coca Cola top – fits
Mineral water top – fits
Apple juice top – fits
In production since 2007
www.stopp.it
Glas gib Gas
The material glass is taken out of context: the functional aspect comes hand in hand with its aesthetic. The glass gas cooker has the advantage that it saves space due to its mobility.
Material: Pirexglass
Jump
The aim was to create an innovative lamp which would include the following features: space-saving, adjustable height and with a simplistic appearance. The most striking challenge was to create a kind of floor lamp that would stand without a base. The product of this reflection is the lamp <jump>, an object that dynamically connects the floor with the ceiling, always under tension, captured by the room. <jump> consists of a height adjustable lamp supported by a flexible fibreglass construction with the shape of an arch clamped between ceiling and floor. It can be moved and fixed with little physical effort and thus, is adaptable to the needs of any given room.
Material: Fibreglass, aluminium
In collaboration with Zumtobel (A) www.zumtobel.com
Award : Light of the future 2006
Photo: Curzio Castellan
Moss
A silver ring whose size and colour adapts to everything: big fingers, thin
fingers, good mood, bad mood, red jumper, black trousers … The varicoloured
mossrubber cubes have not only an aesthetic value but also a functional: they
regulate the size by pushing them to a greater or lesser extend into the ring.
Material: Ag 925
In production since 2006
www.hokohoko.com
