More often than not, great ideas have humble beginnings. Such is the case with a new line of furniture by Dutch design studio OS & OOS. The studio’s latest collection is entitled ?Tunnel? and makes use of pipes to form an array of unique chairs, tables, benches, coat racks, and cabinets. Comprised of duo Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen (both of whom graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009), OS & OOS was founded in 2011. The studio is still based in Eindhoven, and its goal is to ?to find the balance between form, material, and their relation to the surroundings and the user. For [us], it is the constant search to find the essence in the complex that drives [us], taking an initial concept and working it into an object that conveys only what it is meant to.? This ethos is very much apparent in their Tunnel collection, which drew from a variety of different contexts and sources for inspiration.
Influenced by tubular pipes, the timber trestles used for the cutting of lumber, and the material properties of aluminum, OS & OOS?s Tunnel collection straddles the line between industrial design and minimalism. Every piece was crafted using hollow aluminium tubes, whose slender feet are reminiscent of sawhorses. Peet describes his affinity for this carpenter?s helper, saying: “[b]eing from Canada myself, I frequently used a sawhorse for cutting fallen trees into smaller pieces to be later split and used for firewood. The construction of the sawhorse is...