Ostinato
Ostinato Dining Table by Cristian Branea is a winner of the 2018 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Ostinato is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Ostinato is a design object that explore rhythm and repetition as means to transform materials. The piece materializes the concept of ostinato - a motif that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch. In music and in this piece, the base/basso ostinato constructed as a repetitive pattern is the pillar that supports and emphasizes the musical harmonies that are developing on top. A linear, rigorous and repetitive pattern is carved in, over-imposed to the natural fiber of solid wood to create an enhanced sense of materiality.
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Ostinato by Cristian Branea
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Dining Table
Accolades
Furniture Design Award Winner in 2018.
Bronze Winner
Ostinato Dining Table
Ostinato is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Ostinato is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Ostinato splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Cristian Branea
Cristian Branea, originally from Transylvania, is living and working in Bucharest, Romania. With a background in contemporary philosophy, cultural studies, and a PhD in political ecology, Cristian is a self-taught designer. In 2014 he founded MATERIA, a furniture brand, design studio and furniture manufacturing company. Just a couple of years later, Materia was represented internationally in various high-end retailers in Europe, North America and Middle East. In 2017, Materia was recognized as the best design furniture brand by Forbes Magazine Romania.
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Materia Studio
MATERIA's philosophy is non-dualistic, the objects and ideas originate in the genuine condition of raw materials in which the weight of material – be it light or heavy – is part of its constituent value. The materials used can sometimes be reclaimed, sometimes raw or precious, but they always have an intense expressive power. Inspired by materials, the shapes, volumes, and lines are kept in a minimalist aesthetics with monumental, brutalist traits. The material richness is complemented by the expressive appearance of hand treated surfaces so that the final piece retains the traces of the process. MATERIA aims at bringing back and valuing the human makers in objects that are personal, expressive, and bearing the artisan fingerprints. The traditional craftsmanship is mixed with experimental procedures to transform the matter into statement pieces with unexpected textures.
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