Optique
Optique Bench by Albert Potgieter is a winner of the 2022 Iron A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Optique is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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The Optique bench was designed to be a functional art piece. The focus of this design lies in its visual aspect, hence the name, Optique. Being designed in Africa, it carries some of the properties of nature and wildness. It captures the attention as it gives the impression of movement and being alive. The Optique Bench is made out of many separate pieces of solid wood which gets cut, sanded, prepared, oiled and then glued together and like a puzzle gets built up into a solid furniture piece.
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Optique by Albert Potgieter
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Furniture Design Award Winner in 2022.
Iron Winner
Optique Bench
Optique is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Optique is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Optique is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Albert Potgieter
Albert Potgieter Designs was started on the dream to make a difference. To use art and design and creativity to uplift people. To get people off the streets or bad situations into the business and teach them, mentor them and give them a skill and most of all to give back. This is what the business or vision or goal is all about. Every piece that is designed or created is aimed to reach this goal. Albert Potgieter was a Physiotherapist, but started the business in Furniture design to give back to those that haven’t been given the opportunities that he has. Albert Potgieter regards what he achieves not as important, but what is important, is the why behind the what. The ‘why’ that drives the business to do better, to reach for more and to keep fighting.
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Albert Potgieter Designs
Albert Potgieter Designs is a Functional Art designing studio. Specializing in the combination of Furniture and Art objects. Albert Potgieter has the distinct style of using smaller pieces of wood to build his designs into Art piece that are both functional and visually appealing.
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