Mabeo设计的南非木头与镀锌金属结合的家具
Southern African wood and galvanised metal combine in furniture by Mabeo

由专筑网姚小俊，李韧编译

南非博兹瓦纳品牌Mabeo已推出三种新家具收藏品，使用的是木材和当地建筑工厂的金属废料。

这个品牌在新藏品的制作上与南非工匠以及材料供应商合作，同时，招募了三个国际设计师。有来自加拿大的Garth Roberts，来自法国的Inès Bressand和来自意大利的Francesco Faccin，每个产品都展示了当地的木材和镀锌金属。

Botswanan brand Mabeo has launched three new collections of furniture made using wood and waste metal from the local construction industry.
The brand, which works with southern African craftspeople and materials, recruited three international designers for the new collections. Garth Roberts from Canada, Inès Bressand from France and Francesco Faccin from Italy each worked on products that would showcase local woods and galvanised metal.

设计成果既有高耸壁橱前的弯曲金属板，也有精美的铝框“盆栽植物平台”。所有产品都由建筑工厂的金属废料制成，由当地工匠在南非博兹瓦纳制作完成。

关于品牌的设计师合作，创始人Peter Mabeo告诉Dezeen记者：“我们总是在尝试做一些特别的东西，我们通过某种明智、现代并且特别的方式来表达工艺，今年新的材料是镀锌金属，这是我们与博兹瓦纳工匠合作的成果，他们使用的材料都是建设工厂的废料。”

The resulting designs range from a towering cabinet fronted with a single bent sheet of metal to more delicate "pot plant platforms" rimmed with textured aluminium. All are manufactured in Botswana by local craftspeople, using waste metal sourced from the construction industry.
"We always try and do something special that will allow us to express the craft in a way that is really clever, contemporary and fresh," founder Peter Mabeo told Dezeen about the brand's designer collaborations. "The new material for this year is galvanised metal, which is the result of a collaboration we have with craftspeople in Botswana who work with waste material from the construction industry."

“我们并不追求这样的赞美‘哇，我们正在循环利用材料’，甚至于说这是一种技能；人们会说我们正在做这些事情。而我们只是在使用我们拥有的材料。”

这些藏品在今年4月的米兰设计周上展出。Mabeo有一个Tom Dixon的Multiplex系列安装店面，在这里，英国设计师推出了他与宜家的合作产品，同时展示一些精心挑选的来自国际工作室的作品。

"It's not so much that we're seeking to say 'oh we're working with recycled material' so much as it's a skill that's there; people are making these things. So it's using what we have."
The collections were shown at this year's Milan design week in April. Mabeo had a shopfront at Tom Dixon's Multiplex installation, where the British designer launched his IKEA collaboration and new products, as well as showcasing the works of several handpicked international studios.

Mabeo在三个全新的金属及实木Multiplex系列作品的旁边展示了过去的作品。Bressand将这种材料形式制作成一个名叫Zezuru的合集，这是一个以金属加工为特色的民族的名字。

这个集合中的橱柜、椅子以及咖啡桌都包含了光滑的木头与以镀锌金属，粗糙的表面和明显的锤痕形成鲜明的对比。

Mabeo showed past work alongside the three new metal and wood series at Multiplex. Bressand's take on the materials forms a collection called Zezuru, named after the ethnic group whose metalwork is featured.
The cabinet, chair and coffee table in this collection each contrast smooth wood with a component made from galvanised metal, rougher in appearance and bearing visible hammer marks.

同时，Faccin的Masalela碎片有更轻巧的外观。Masalela在方言中的意思为“下脚料”，因此，Masalela作为茶几显然是打算作为“盆栽植物平台”。

它们完全由金属制成，底座光滑、颜色鲜亮的镀锌金属，顶盖使用的是一个看起来更像是工业产品的铝制花纹金属板。

Faccin's Masalela pieces, meanwhile, have a more lightweight appearance. The Masalela – a word meaning "leftovers" in one of the local languages – are side tables apparently intended as "pot plant platforms".
They are made entirely from metal – a base formed from smooth and brightly painted galvanised metal, and a top that uses a more industrial-looking textured aluminium treadplate.

在最后的三个新收藏品中，Roberts的Seri系列是一个完全专注于木材应用的配件系列的延伸，它的特点是圆形餐桌和茶几顶部和桌腿边缘的纹理。

Mabeo成立于1996年，以在南非博兹瓦纳当地生产为目标。它第一个合作的国际设计师是来自加拿大的Patty Johnson，这位设计师在2008年为这个品牌设计了Tswana折叠椅和ThuThu凳子。

The final of the three new collections, Roberts' Seri, is an extension of a previous accessories series and focuses entirely on wood. It features a round dining table and side table, textured around the edges of their tops and legs.
Mabeo was founded in 1996 with the goal of producing locally in Botswana and southern Africa. Its first international designer collaboration was with Canadian Patty Johnson, who produced the Tswana folding chair and ThuThu stool for the brand in 2008.

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