


Walter Knoll The Farns Sideboard
Incredible architecture and structure: The mirrored drawers and doors of The Farns can be opened 180 degrees. A furniture piece with many faces, for countless lighting moods – The Farns is a sideboard or buffet table, a highboard or lowboard, a cabinet or bar, a shelf or a body of light.
A decisive architectural item for every living room: like modernist architecture, The Farns plays with light and shade, form and geometry, wood and glass. A modern bungalow space, transparent and accessible. The Farns can be used as a body of light and bring out the features of a room. As a house in the house – a striking, self-contained little building – this piece is an homage to the Bauhaus. Clear and innovative like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s famous “Farnsworth House”, the prototype for all glass structures.
Details
The Farns Lowboard with 8 doors (on both sides: 1 x glass door, 2 x wooden door, 1 x glass door)
Width : 240 cm
Depth : 58 cm
Height : 75 cm
Base Frame: Steel, Powder-Coated Matt Black
Finish: Oak Burned, Veneered And Lacquered
EOOS, namely Martin Bergmann, Gernot Bohmann and Harald Gründl, take their name from one of the four horses pulling the chariot of the sun god Helios in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. They describe their approach as “poetic analysis”. A tool they use to explore the deeper meaning of images, rituals and myths as a basis for new designs. Through examining the culture of human rituals, EOOS question the meaning and function of design and provide their own answers. The work of the team has so far been recognized by more than 130 design prizes, including the Compasso d'Oro.
The three Austrian designers met while studying together at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Today they are still based in the city, where they create designs destined for projects from Milan to Toronto, New York to Herrenberg.