PostFossil is a collective of Swiss designers who pooled their talents to examine and re-assess the use of day-to-day objects. The say the objects they design are involved in daily life, attract attention and demand reconsideration of their usual treatment. It is subtle criticism in detail, drawing out the issue of a sustainable treatment of resources.
With their Sports Furniture concept, they develop products that are at the same time dual-purpose and stripped down to their bare essentials. Sports Furniture is intended to offer physical fitness at home but the designers hope that their ‘furniture collection’ easily blends into the living space: The pull-up bar doubles as a clothes hanger, the mat is a rug, the bench is also a side-table. Their site says:
The collection symbolizes the personal fitness and satisfies the again fashionable drive for movement. The postfossil age will enhance the personal energy consciousness and we are in search of a more efficient and healthy way of interacting with our environment. This path is being supported by the design as well as the choice of materials. The forms are reduced and limited to the essential. The materials are of natural origin and traditional techniques are combined with contemporary design.
lorian Hauswirth and Thomas Walde have developed a though provoking, five-piece sports furniture collection encouraging the user to think about energy production and use. Each piece of furniture has been adapted so that it serves not only its original purpose but also doubles up as a fitness suite. For instance the coat rack can also be used to do pull-ups.
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