Danish designer Cecilie Manz has partnered with 145-12 months-previous Danish furniture brand Rud Rasmussen to reimagine the hotel mini-bar.
The mini-bar references Rud Rasmussen’s back catalogue of goods, pairing European cherry wood with canvas. Manz experimented with to “twist the standard use” of resources, thereby providing a new challenge for the cabinetmaker’s craftsmen.
The mini-bar has been created from a wood frame that’s been partially covered in blue and white canvas material, topped by grey Italian marble.
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Mouth-blown crystal glasses, provided by Finnish brand Iittala, rest on a set of burnished metal hooks set into the back of the bar, and bottles can be stored in a wood-lined chiller bucket. A yellow Bang & Olufsen BeoPlay A2 speaker hangs off the mini-bar’s side, adding to the general auditory expertise.
“A mini-bar must be the two a salvation and a temptation,” designer Cecilie Manz explained. “You ought to be capable to find both water to quench your thirst and champagne to celebrate existence.”
Manz has stocked the cabinet with some of her personal favourites, which includes Japanese Hojiha tea, coffee, Riesling, dark chocolate and local apple cider.
“Among modern Danish designers, Cecilie Manz is the best representative of the Danish layout tradition,” explained Rud Rasmussen CEO David Obel Rosenkvist.
“Her work constitutes the renewal of the unbroken line that extends from the grand masters represented in Rud Rasmussen’s collection and historical past: Kaare Klint, Mogens Koch and Poul Kjærholm.”
“In fact, her technique to design – from feasibility study and analysis by way of solution – is straight out of the Klint college and is a single of the most exciting, inspiring examples of the interpretation of contemporary Danish layout these days,” he additional.
Rud Rasmussen was established in 1869 when founder Rudolph Rasmussen set up a cabinetmaking company in Copenhagen.
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The company has continued to generate furniture with a concentrate on craftsmanship, bringing a number of notable patterns to market place including architect Mogens Koch’s shelving program, and many chairs by Danish designer Kaare Klint.
Manz’s project was designed as part of lifestyle magazine Wallpaper’s yearly Handmade exhibition throughout the Salone del Mobile style honest in Milan.
Also for the duration of the event, the Copenhagen-primarily based designer showed a pine and limestone table as component of GamFratesi’s Mindcraft exhibition of Danish design.
She has previously made aluminium lampshades for Lightyears, theatre-box-shaped shelves for Iittala, and a trestle table held collectively by strips of leather for Menu.
