‘trestle’ – OUT NOW !

Dear friends,

The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived:
after recurring enquiries regarding our escritoire “trestle” the first limited edition of it is going into production at mate’s rate!
Just for you and just while stocks last.

Germany: 389,00 € incl. vat. incl. shipping
EU: 348,00 € excl. vat. incl. shipping

Colours: alabaster white/deepsky blue or light grey/torch red
Material: powdered steel, three-layer slab of solid oak wood
Measurements: 80 x 40 x 75 cm (wdh)

Orders can be done until the 15th of November at:
trestle@ettlabenn.com

Best,
Oliver Bischoff & Danilo Dürler

More pictures & movies of ‘trestle’ you can see here! CLICK

Chinese Travel Channel

As we reported, the ‘Chinese Travel Channel’ visited us in July.
Now their ‘Berlin Edition’ on the city’s design scene is being broadcasted.
Click here for watching the whole stream.
We are part 8-10.
Oh, and speaking Chinese helps.

‘trestle’ – OUT NOW !

Making of ‘OLED Panel System’

First 1:1 scale models and sketches…

OLED Panel System

OLED Panel System for a wide range of applications

Florist

Making of ‘Fold’

‘Fold’

The lamp is designed as background lighting for living spaces. It takes the cold and technical appearance of the OLED material and shows how this new technology can be integrated into any living room.
The design lamp consists of a bent metal sheet. The colored OLED-pannel is positioned on the inside of this sheet.

Casa Viva Magazine

ett la benn wins 3rd at CODE poster contest

From more than 550 submissions, ett la benn’s poster „Tempelhof“ was elected as one of the top three visuals within the CODE poster contest, initiated by CREATE BERLIN.
Being the only european UNESCO City of Design, the network for Berlin Designers was looking for the visual code of Berlin.

The Jury on „Tempelhof“: „ Airports are world-wide a landmark for cities. Also the once largest airport of the world, Berlin Tempelhof, is in various regards a large symbol for the city of Berlin. Very present in the minds of all Berlin citizens, especially since it lately executed and often discussed closing.
The artists have managed to throw a glance at both, the city’s past and future, through just one photograph. The power that can be thus generated by an image like this is tremendous. The fugacity of a significant symbol of a city’s infrastructure, the consideration of the different weather conditions and last but not least the self-explanatory Coding/De-Coding via the existing airfield markings is remarkable.“

ett la benn @ DMY Asia Exhibition Tour 2009

This year, from August till December at six different design fairs we will showcase a selection of design objects both by established designers and upcoming talents living and working in the German capital Berlin.

The group exhibition presents a variety of unique editions and interior products.
The collection juxtaposes a set of rather minimalistic industrial objects against one-offs and often manually made sensual, limited items.

Surprising in their formal playfulness and pushing the boundaries of material deployment the items on display question our habitual relations with objects.
Adaptable and modifiable, these foresighted products easily adapt to ever changing living conditions and habits.

Participating Designers

DMY Asia Exhibition Tour presents mostly new product launches by the likes of:

Adam und Harborth, Beta Tank, BLESS, Daniel Lorch, e27, elegant embellishments, ett la benn, llot llov, Mark Braun, Martin Holzapfel, Erik van Buuren / P van B, roomsafari, Rupert Kopp, Werner Aisslinger

The exhibition is extended by a product catalogue with a neat selection of available and prospective design products.

The DMY Asia Exhibition Tour 2009 is funded by the Berliner Landesinitiative Projekt Zukunft and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE).
Taking place in cooperation with the Taiwan Design Center, Taiwan Design Week, Designtide Tokyo, Seoul Design Olympiad and Seoul Design Festival.

Taiwan Designer’s Week (Taipei/ Taiwan)
28.08. – 06.09.

Taiwan Design Expo (Taichung/Taiwan)
02.10. – 18.10.

Designtide (Tokyo/Japan)
30.10. – 03.11.

Seoul Design Olympiad (Seoul/Korea)
09.10. – 29.10.

Singapur Design Week (Singapur)
20.11. – 30.11.

Seoul Design Festival (Seoul/Korea)
02.12. – 06.12.

text & picture by DMY

CODE postercontest 2009

ett la benn participates with their view of airport Tempelhof shortly after the the shut down end of last year.

Since 2006, Berlin is Europe’s first and only »UNESCO-City of Design«.
The title »CODE« stands for »City Of DEsign« and also for the visual key of Berlin.
During the citywide exhibition in Berlin we will also show 20 of the best works from Montreal, where a similar action took place, and will consequently travel to the other »UNESCO Cities of Design« with the 20 favourites from Berlin.

The results will be shown in a city-wide exhibition on over 1.000 Billboards provided by
WALL AG/ Die Draussenwerber
from 24.08. – 06.09.2009.

The 20 Favourites and the 3 winners will be on display inside the
Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung
from 06.09. – 10.09.2009.

DECO magazine

Guiding the ‘CHINA TRAVEL CHANNEL’ through Berlin

The chinese ‚Travel Channel’ visited us last month in order to interview us on the Berlin design scene.
Due to their collaboration with Case da Abitare, an international magazine for interior, design and living, they wanted to portrait the lifestyle, art, design and creative energy of our vibrant city.

After explaining to them our projects and overall working philosophy in our studio, we spontaneously decided to extend our meeting and show them around the city a little.
Our first stop: Yumcha Heroes in Berlin-Mitte, just around the corner and coincidentally designed by us!

ett la benn for YUMCHA HEROES

YUMCHA HEROES is a new fine asian restaurant located in Berlin-Mitte.
“Yumcha” is Cantonese and refers to the culinary experience of eating small servings of food like dim sum, while enjoying the best of Chinese tea.
ett la benn is responsible for the entire interior of this new dim sum eatery.

ett la benn @ stadtladen

ett la benn issues their modular storage system ’swoc’.
Exhibition from 29.05. – 26.06.2009

ett la benn for Koziol

Five Berlin design studios have spent the past 6 weeks on the development of new products for the German company koziol.

Various projects for kitchen, bath and living have resulted from this open assignment.

Nu Prussians

ett la benn is part of the first edition of DMY’s new product label.

»At the right time and in the right place a new business
collective consisting of System 180 (production), DMY
Berlin (creative network) and designers has emerged.
Having recognized the potential of the Berlin design
scene and more importantly, with the courage to establish
a platform for design, presentation, marketing and
production, that is able to sustain its position and assert
itself globally. An important step for Berlin.«
ett la benn

DMY Berlin, System 180 and 15 Berlin based product designers developed a new product line. The label‘s structure is unique in Germany, with production and distribution of exclusive design products, whose distinct features combine sleek design and sophisticated functionality. Each of the products is characterized by unique attributes, be it an interesting combination of materials, its modularity or the individual possibilities for its user. The products will be available internationally in autumn 2009.

Tagesspiegel

Bombay Sapphire Design Nights at stilwerk

In exclusive cooperation with stilwerk, Bombay Sapphire initiated an exhibition series, the „Bombay Sapphire Design Nights“, in order to set up a new platform for design and creativity.

Centrepiece of this year’s exhibition was the unconventional bar designed by the architects GRAFT for the Blue Collection. Their inspiration: the Gin’s fluent movements…