Inside Out - Staple Console
by Wendy Andreu
Material
Aluminium
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The Staple Console is an aluminium shelving console by Wendy Andreu, built on the Staple Series construction logic: interlocking sheets of metal, folded and welded into a continuous structure.
The form is asymmetric. Bent silver-grey metal sheets create an arrangement of open shelves and a central closed compartment that shifts the visual balance off-centre. The polished metallic surface highlights the continuous fold, each plane flowing into the next without visible joints at the transitions. The overall proportions are architectural and precise; this is a console that organises space by presence as much as by storage.
In the Staple Series, each sheet is first folded to shape and then welded at the connections, producing a structure that reads as one continuous form rather than an assembly of parts. The technique is the same aluminium handled differently: where the Double Pyramid uses flat laser-cut panels, the Staple pieces rely on fold and weld.
Part of Inside Out, the Staple Console sits within a collection that makes construction method its defining aesthetic. Wendy Andreu, AD 100 France 2024, developed this work from her Paris XIX studio through a sustained investigation into what aluminium can become when the fabrication process is fully exposed.
W 135 x D 38 x H 106 cm
W 53.15 x D 14.96 x H 41.73 in
Materials: Aluminium
About
Wendy Andreu
Wendy Andreu is a craft designer who aims to communicate through the materials she is using. By experimenting with them, she finds surprising outcomes that can be translated into functional design proposals. She is able to execute any idea that comes to her mind in order to check the potential of it. She likes to think of the bridges between matter, people and space in an open way. In her research, the context has as much importance as the concept, without forgetting the quality of the making and the aesthetic of the pieces.
Wendy Andreu won the Public Prize of the Accessory competition at the Villa Noailles in Hyères (2017) and won the Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize in New-York City (2017). In 2018, she got a grant from the Stimulerings Fund (NL) in order to develop her project Regen. In 2020, she was one of the Rising Talent France during Maison et Objet January edition. She is part of AD 100 France 2024.
She is currently working in Paris XIX where she is developing experimental work as well as commissioned projects for public and private clients.
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