Re-pete
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MPavilion 2022 Chair design commission
by
Sam Tomkins,
Iain [Max] Maxwell,
Ben Ennis-Butler
MPavilion 2022 Chair design commission
by
Sam Tomkins,
Iain [Max] Maxwell,
Ben Ennis-Butler
Re-pete is a lightweight zero-waste stool produced
from robotically extruded recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (rPET)
plastic.
Drawing inspiration from the billowing and cellular forms of the pavilion design, our stool’s complex doubly-curved shape enhances the chair’s stability and stiffness at key locations whilst offering flex and suspension at others. The translucent yet highly textured surfaces animate the stool, amplifying its environment through flickering plays of light and casting spectrums of colour.
Our work demonstrates a circular approach encompassing design, fabrication and recovery while celebrating the aesthetic and functional possibilities of emergent material techniques and robotic fabrication technologies.
Awards
Gold Winner. Australian Good Design Awards 2023. Product/Furniture and Lighting
Award of Merit. Design Institute of Australia, Designers Australia Awards 2023: USE describing things we use.
Gold Winner. Designers Institute of New Zealand, Best Design Awards 2023: Furniture.
Silver Prize. Product Design, 2023 Design Educates Awards.
Shortlisted
FRAME Awards' Product: Furniture of the Year
IDEA Awards 2023: Object, Furniture & Lighting - Professional.
7.38/10 FRAME Furniture Jury, June 2023
Exhibited
Bangkok Design Week, Shadow and Spaces: Spectrum of Possibilities, February 2024
Sydney Design Week, Powerhouse Museum, September 2023
MPavilion, Queen Victoria Gardens, 8 December 2022 - 6 April 2023.
Craft Victoria, The Chair, September 10 - November 19, 2022.
Research
RePete, University of Canberra Research Portal
Media
The Age. ‘We’re the least famous architects’: The designers behind this year’s MPavilion. 20 November 2022.
Green Magazine. Zero Waste Stool ‘Re-Pete’ Announced as Winner of Chair Design for 9th MPavilion. 29 September 2022.
Australian Design Review. Zero-waste stool named chair design winner for MPavilion 2022. 13 September 2022.
Elly Mackay. UC team win coveted international design award, University of Canberra Press Release. 26 August 2022.
MPavilion 2022 Chair: Re-Pete
MPavilion. Ephemeral. Transformative. Zero-Waste. Introducing the MPavilion 2022 Chair... Press Release. 22 August 2022.
Drawing inspiration from the billowing and cellular forms of the pavilion design, our stool’s complex doubly-curved shape enhances the chair’s stability and stiffness at key locations whilst offering flex and suspension at others. The translucent yet highly textured surfaces animate the stool, amplifying its environment through flickering plays of light and casting spectrums of colour.
Our work demonstrates a circular approach encompassing design, fabrication and recovery while celebrating the aesthetic and functional possibilities of emergent material techniques and robotic fabrication technologies.
Awards
Gold Winner. Australian Good Design Awards 2023. Product/Furniture and Lighting
Award of Merit. Design Institute of Australia, Designers Australia Awards 2023: USE describing things we use.
Gold Winner. Designers Institute of New Zealand, Best Design Awards 2023: Furniture.
Silver Prize. Product Design, 2023 Design Educates Awards.
Shortlisted
FRAME Awards' Product: Furniture of the Year
IDEA Awards 2023: Object, Furniture & Lighting - Professional.
7.38/10 FRAME Furniture Jury, June 2023
Exhibited
Bangkok Design Week, Shadow and Spaces: Spectrum of Possibilities, February 2024
Sydney Design Week, Powerhouse Museum, September 2023
MPavilion, Queen Victoria Gardens, 8 December 2022 - 6 April 2023.
Craft Victoria, The Chair, September 10 - November 19, 2022.
Research
RePete, University of Canberra Research Portal
Media
The Age. ‘We’re the least famous architects’: The designers behind this year’s MPavilion. 20 November 2022.
Green Magazine. Zero Waste Stool ‘Re-Pete’ Announced as Winner of Chair Design for 9th MPavilion. 29 September 2022.
Australian Design Review. Zero-waste stool named chair design winner for MPavilion 2022. 13 September 2022.
Elly Mackay. UC team win coveted international design award, University of Canberra Press Release. 26 August 2022.
MPavilion 2022 Chair: Re-Pete
MPavilion. Ephemeral. Transformative. Zero-Waste. Introducing the MPavilion 2022 Chair... Press Release. 22 August 2022.
Re-pete. MPavilion 2022 Chair design commission
Studio Photography by Nick Burrows. Render by Sam Tomkins. MPavilion photos by Ben Ennis Butler
Who we are
Iain [Max] Maxwell, Dr Ben Ennis Butler and Sam Tomkins. Our profiles →.
An interdisciplinary team of design based-researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.
Iain [Max] Maxwell, Dr Ben Ennis Butler and Sam Tomkins. Our profiles →.
An interdisciplinary team of design based-researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra.