Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian designer Sara Kele creates Tangens, an office furniture series that can be easily arranged in space due to their lightness but also provide the comfort of a home office environment designed for the living room.
The project has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Tangens furniture collection seamlessly follows and helps dynamically change work processes, team compositions, and functional needs. The collection includes seating and storage furniture, tables, and room dividers.
With its almost endless possibilities of combinations, Tangens offers an opportunity to perfectly tailor your furniture to the processes, atmosphere, design, and possibilities of your workplace.
The Tangens furniture product range embraces the value of human relationships. The designers arrived at the tangible structure of the furniture by delving deep into the metaphors of embracing and touching.
This motif is also apparent in the products. The power of cold, masculine metal embraces and gives form to the warm, soft, feminine materials and the wood and textile elements.
This curved tubular frame shows respect for tradition, recalling the graphic Bauhaus world.
The different textures and colors provide endless variability, and the combinations of elements of the thorough, well-conceived material palette always result in a harmonious overall picture.
The team has chosen textiles made of highly wear-resistant recycled PET bottles and woven wool for the collection.
The covers’ Velcro solution makes it easy to change – whether it’s for cleaning or changing the color for a new look.
The raw material of the wooden elements is plywood with good structural stability, which is the best choice for the environmentally friendly furniture product range due to its recycled nature and the minimal amount of cutting waste.
The seating surfaces are built on a durable wave spring load-bearing structure with a lifecycle that spans generations. The fillers also include, where possible, recycled felt and ground materials.
The sintering of steel pipes is carried out on a modern automated line that recycles the excess generated during powder coating.
The upholstered elements are carefully made by hand. The combination of modern innovation and traditional technologies is a guarantee of high quality.
Project: Tangens
Designers: Sara Kele, Sara Kele Studio
Manufacturer: Rotte Kft.
