Gere Astiahylly by Florian Beser is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award in Huonekalumuotoilu Competition Category.

PronssiHuonekalut· 2023

Gere Astiahylly

by Florian Beser

Client: Florian Beser

Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Huonekalut Category

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The Design

About Gere Astiahylly

Gere on monikäyttöinen astiahylly, joka on suunniteltu pieniin keittiöihin ja ruokailutiloihin. Geren lautaset muodostavat hyllyn kohokuvioisen etupinnan, jolloin sisätila jää vapaaksi kupeille, laseille ja muille astioille. Hylly on valmistettu tammipuusta, ja lautaset on valettu posliinista. Gere ripustetaan seinälle, ja yksittäisiä rivejä voidaan kääntää alas lautasen poistamiseksi tai säilytettyjen esineiden saavuttamiseksi. Ruudukkorakenne mahdollistaa skaalautuvat koot erilaisille kotitalouksille. Astiastoa voi laajentaa moduulien avulla.

The Recognition

About the Pronssipalkinto A' Design Award

Gere Astiahylly on Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, erittäin arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään erinomaisille designeille, joita luonnehtivat luovuus, nerokkuus ja oveluus. Pronssivoittajat ovat runsaan taitavia ja silmiinpistävän luovia taiteellisia tuotoksia, jotka todistavat suunnittelijoidensa laajaa kokemusta, mielikuvitusta ja kekseliäisyyttä. Gere Astiahylly:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu esine, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Pronssipalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign sisällyttää itseensä parhaita käytäntöjä taiteessa, tieteessä, designissa ja teknologiassa ja on erinomainen huomiollaan yksityiskohtiin. Gere Astiahylly tyydyttää upeasti tarpeita, koskettaa haluja, viehättää tunteita ja vetoaa uteliaisuuteen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Gere as the combination of shelf and plates uses its plates to create the relief-like front of the shelf. The thereby free interior space can be used to store more crockery, cups, glasses, etc.
The gridlike structure of Gere allows scalable sizes of the shelf, so that a family can use a bigger Gere than a single household.
Dimensions & Packaging: Gere-plates: 240mm x 240mm x 20mm
Gere-shelf-prototype: 1200mm x 200mm x 1300mm
(the size of the shelf varies, because it can be personalised)
Tags: ceramic, tableware, furniture, multifunctional, wood, shelf, plate, kitchen
Production Technology: To enable the functional interaction of shelf and plates, material properties had to be calculated. The shelf of Gere consists out of oak wood, because it is local, sturdy and insensitive against water. The plates of Gere were concepted using 3D-graphic-software and then 3D-printed. The resulting objects were translated to plaster mold and finally cast in porcelain.
Design Challenge: The project was created during the first year of the corona pandemic. There were a lot of restrictions on the use of workshops and the purchase of materials. During the process, i was challenged with iterations, new processing techniques such as working with a cnc milling machine and calculating material properties such as porcelain-shrinkage and material waste.
Research: During the research process multiple methods such as a survey, a market analysis, interviews with the target group and the user journey map were used.
This resulted in detailed insights about selling points for kitchen-shelfs and plates, storage in kitchens, structuring items in the kitchen and overall interaction points with shelfs and plates.
Inspiration: Housing is becoming smaller. Space has to be used in a meaningful way. People use minimalism to reduce their possessions and multifunctional products to save space.
The inspiration of the project were small kitchen spaces with large shelfs, filled with staples of round plates that leave lots of unused space. The focus of the project was to create a crockery shelf as small as needed by people in small housing.
Project Duration: The project started in early summer 2020 in Aachen and finished in September 2020.
Operation Flow: Gere is ideally hung on the wall in the kitchen or dining room. Individual rows can be folded down to take stored items out of the inside or to remove a plate from the front. The plates have segments so that the main course and the side dish can be placed separately on one plate and thus be transported easily. In addition to the storage space in the front, there is the option of storing more crockery, cups, glasses, etc. on the shelves behind. The crockery set is modularly expandable.
Team Members: Designer Florian Beser
Image Credits: Images: Photographer Janosch Bartsch, Gere, 2020