Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium by Florian Beser is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Supellectilis Competition Category.
AesSupellex· 2023
Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium
Client: Florian Beser
Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Supellex Category
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About Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium
Gere est pluteus vasorum fictilium multifunctionalis, ad culinas et triclinia parva destinatus. Discі Gere frontem pluteі instar caelaturae efficiunt, ita ut spatium interius poculis, vitreis, et aliis vasis fictilibus liberum maneat. Pluteus ex ligno quercino factus est, discí vero ex porcellana effusi sunt. Gere parieti suspenditur, et singuli ordines deorsum plicari possunt ut discus removeatur vel res reconditae attingantur. Structura reticulata magnitudines variabiles pro diversis domibus permittit. Vasorum series modulariter augeri potest.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum
Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Gere Pluteus Vasorum Fictilium necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.
Behind the Design
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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
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