Carpets in various sizes are made out of the leftovers of the „Globus shop windows“. The EPDM granulate was used to build mountains in the shop windows and now carpets are created out of it. Each carpet is a mosaic of glued granules in a unique color combination. They are waterproof and can be used outside on a terrace, in a shower as anti sliding floor, door mat in the entrance or inside.
Standardising the brick is an idea society developed profoundly in the last decade.
We combine “the standardised perfection” with the “unpredictability” of the human hand. The resulting collection Bricks captures the tension of an industrial process, disrupted by traditional craft and transforming the standard building materials into crafted architecture.
We developed three interventions in a public sports hall, called "Give Me a Break", "Give Me Two Seconds" and "Enough Is Enough". They are ready to be used by the students.
This is part of a Kunst am Bau project, initiated by San Keller for the Canton of Zurich.
The project has emerged from a multi-voiced thought and experience process. These people were involved: Yadin Bernauer, Gregory Tara Hari, Sol Jarkovich, Ceylan Öztrük, Thea Reifler, Leila Kaletta, Christoph Elias Meier and San Keller.
Title of three interventions:
Give Me Two Seconds - ball enters a hole and exists another hole
Give Me a Break - ball slides slowly through a long basketball mesh
Enough Is Enough - ball enters a hole and is store in the tool shed
Location: Sport Center Gloriarank, Gloriastrasse 22, Zurich
Photography by Peter Tillessen
Kunst am Bau Gloriarank
2023
Mino Soil: Transfigurations of Clay
(Becoming Form)
A collaboration and research in clay with Mino Soil.
A series of lamps and bowls using the extrusion process for clay and its leftovers.
The Colours are made by using the different earths of the mine.
Group exhibition:
Karimoku Commons Gallery, Tokyo
Open: 19–29 April 2022
link: http://minosoil.jp/
Mino Soil: Transfigurations
of Clay (Becoming Form)
2022
Color Concept - University Campus Brig
We developed the color concept of all furniture in the school building University Campus Brig.
Architect: Markus Schietsch Architekten
Location: Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz and Fernfachhochschule FFHS, Schrinerstrasse 18, Brig-Glis, Switzerland
Color Concept
University Campus Brig
2021
Centerpiece - University Campus Brig
The building University Campus Brig hosts the office department of two schools. We were asked to come up with an idea on how to use the central area of the new building by Markus Schietsch Architekten. To foster spontaneous gathering we created a meeting point as a centerpiece. The three tables will smile at you watched from the first floor.
Concept and design for Globus window displays in eight different cities in Switzerland.
For further information and orders please visit:
https://kuengcaputo.globus.ch
Photography by Flavio Karrer
Kueng Caputo x Globus
2021
Total Space - cosa pensi?
Exhibition: 23.10.2020 - 20.6.2021
Where: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Curator: Damian Fopp & Matylda Krzykowski
Dive in, explore, participate! The exhibition Total Space at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich invites visitors to immerse themselves in an overall sensory experience of space. Five design studios have created spaces for active discovery especially for the novel exhibition.
Kueng Caputo presents a dense forest of 38 columns that repurposes by-products from the various stages of their design process from initial idea to finished design, thus rendering the process both visible and tangible.
Photography by Paola Caputo
Total Space - cosa pensi?
2020
Fendi x Kueng Caputo – Roman Molds
Material: leather and glazed ceramic bricks
The Roman Molds collection has been showed at FENDI’s headquarters at the Palazzo Della Civiltà Italiana and at Design Miami 2019
Photography by Omar Sartor
Fendi Roman Molds
2019
Kueng Caputo x Etui Fialka
Cases preserve what is valuable. As a metaphor for civil society cohesion, KUENG CAPUTO, with the help of Etui Fialka, devised caskets to be filled with medals for those who have rendered outstanding services in rescuing people fleeing.
Kueng Caputo x Etui Fialka
2018
Stone Lamp
2018
Reflective Succulent Planter
Reflective Flower Pot
Materials: Travertine, Reflective Floor Paint
Dimensions: 26,5 x 22 x 13 cm
About: The Reflective Flower Pot was made at the Palazzo Monti residency, Summer 2018
2018
Reflective Succulent Planter
2018
Ciao Amico Mio
Particle Lamp LED Tube - Hanging/Wall
Materials: Plastic granulate sheet, LED Tube
Dimensions: 60 x 130 x 7 cm
Dimensions: 40 x 50 x 7 cm
2018
Ciao Amico Mio
2018
Handles
Produced with EBONY decolonize work, Milan
2018
Handles
2018
Sand Chair Series (new shapes)
2018
Homage Carpets
Materials: EPDM Granules, Jute
Various dimensions
UV Resistant & Water Resistant
2017
Homage Carpets
2017
Silo Furniture
Material: Wood Maple stained and oiled
Limited Edition. Available in green, red, blue, yellow, rosa
Silo Table large: 79,2 x 170cm, H: 74 cm
Silo Table small: 97.5 x 87.5cm, H: 74 cm
Silo Stool: 32 x 27cm, H: 45 cm
Lamps:
Material: Aluminium sheet powder-coated black/white, LED
Detail: Lampshade is moving with the wind
Wall lamp large: 51 x 64.2cm
Wall lamp small: 40,5 x 51cm
Date: 2017
SILO SILO
Limmatstrasse 254, 8005 Zurich
Photography by Paola Caputo
Silo Furniture
2017
Corner Tables
A series of modular elements that can be
added to existing architecture.
These lightweight elements interact visually with
spaces and improve acoustics by absorbing sound through a foamed structure.
“Air is everywhere. What if we stretch material with air? Utopia or reality?”
In a world where natural resources are being rapidly depleted,
it seems reasonable to consider how material could be stretched further in the future We have explored this con-cept by collaborating with DeCavis - experts in the development of hydraulic bound materials for industrial applications. Based on the notion that gypsum ‘stretched’ with air only uses 7% of source material without affecting its basic properties, but considerably reducing its weight, new conditions for visioning arise.
Collaboration with DeCavis, Duebendorf
Material Architectural elements: cast hydraulic bound gypsum, pigments, tartan
Date: 2017
Photography by Paola Caputo
Corner Tables
2017
Anyway Part Of It
2016
LE SOUND A DISPARU
“Air is everywhere. What if we could stretch materials with air? Utopia or reality?”
A series of modular elements that can be added to existing architecture. These lightweight elements interact visually with spaces and improve acoustics by absorbing sound through a foamed structure.
Collaboration with DeCavis, Duebendorf
Material Architectural elements: cast hydraulic bound gypsum, pigments
Date: 2016
Photography by Paola Caputo
Le sound a disparu
2016
Der Entwurf - Tables
Material: oak wood, iron chloride
Der Entwurf - Desk: 125×63, H: 76cm
Der Entwurf - Salontable: 54×45, H:68 cm
Date: 2016
Photography by Suter Caputo
der Entwurf
2016
As If - ceramics
Material: porcelain
Plate 220 - H 35, 157×226mm
->colors: Black/White, Blue, Dark Red/Red
Plate 310 - H 35, 214×311mm
->colors: Black/White, Peacock, Dark Red/Red
Bowl 160 - H 107 φ 160mm
->colors: Black/White, Red, Light Blue/Blue
Bowl 280 - H 87 φ 280mm
->colors: Black/White, Blue, Dark Red/Red
Flower Vase S - H 123 φ 87mm
->colors: Black/White, Red, Light Blue/Blue
Flower Vase M - H 188 74×140mm
->colors: Black/White, Blue, Dark Red/Red
Flower Vase L - H 222 φ 130mm
->colors: Black/White, Peacock, Dark Red/Red
Orders:
http://www.2016arita.com
Date: 2016
Photography by Suter Caputo
As If, Arita
2016
The boardroom - ZKB
Conference Table - Material: bended mirror mat, oak veneer mat, steel base, technical installations
Size: for 27 persons, 6,5x11m, H:74cm
Material: Inopan div. bulb holders
Size: L: 84 cm, 3 x 6.5 cm
L: 146 cm, 3 x 6.5 cm
L: 158 cm, 3 x 6.5 cm
Date: 2014
Photography by Suter Caputo
A Piece of Wall
2014
Too Hard To Be True – Stools
Material: diverse marble
Size: 40.6 x 33.7 x 33.7 cm (13 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches)
Date: 2014
Photography by Suter Caputo
Too hard to be true
2014
Try To Impress Cleopatra - Console
Material: Marmo Giallo Siena, aluminium, covered with leather
Size: 38 x 115 cm H: 128 cm (15 x 45.3 H: 50.4 inches)
Date: 2014
Photography by Suter Caputo
Try to impress Cleopatra
2014
Leather Table
Dining Table
Material: aluminium, leather
Size: 210 x 70 cm H: 75 cm (82.6 x 27.5 H: 29.5 inches)
Date: 2014
Photography by Suter Caputo
Leather Table
2014
Coathanger
Material: Enamel, stael
Leather, steal
Size: 13 x 11 x 2 cm (5 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches)
13 x 11 x 2 cm (5 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches)
Date: 2014
Photography by Suter Caputo
Coathanger
2013
Never Too Much – Stool & Benches
Stool:
Material: seat - hand-painted leather on aluminum; base - enamel on steel
Size: 41 x 34 x 34 cm (16 × 13.25 × 13.25 inches)
Bench:
Material: seat - hand-painted leather on aluminum; base - enamel on steel
Size: 46 × 107 × 34 cm (18.25 × 42 × 13.5 inches)
Date: 2013
Never Too Much
2013
A trip without a trip
29.09.2013
Kueng Caputo
The game goes on with or without us, 2013
Adapted ping pong table
(206 x 115 cm)
curated by Happen Projects
St. Moritz Art Masters
09.2013
Neu/Vertraut
01.2013
Reading Room Nextex
12.2012
Sand Chair Serie
08.2012
Ping pong
06.2012
Times, Bar
02.2012
Lampada Appoggiata
Material: Elm wood div. bulb holders
Size: L: 84 cm / L: 160 cm / L: 172 cm / L: 190 cm / L: 223 cm
Date: 2011
Lampada appoggiata
12.2011
Sand Chair Serie, Frieze Art Fair
10.2011
Designeast02, Osaka
09.2011
Les complices, Zürich
07.2011
Hinterhof Gallery, Basel
06.2011
Copy by Kueng Caputo, DMY
06.2011
The Quadrangular Cloud
03.2011
Frieze Art Fair 2010
10.2010
Vienna Design Week 2010
10.2010
Take a seat
08.2010
Motto Bookstore, Zurich
03.2010
Deliver Takeaway, Milano
04.2010
Copies, Designtide, Tokyo
10.2009
Workshop Utrafactory, Kyoto
09.2009
la lampada a stelo
09.2009
Improkitchen - between cooking and art
The ‘improkitchen’ is an improvisation platform we designed for Eva Maria Küpfer and Stefanie Grubenmann.
Eva Maria Küpfer and Stefanie Grubenmann are two choreographer and dancers. They curate dinners, in which the ‘improkitchen’ is the base for their improvisation process and cooking.
For the opening ceremony of the theatrical season the improkitchen was rolled through the city.
To give the spectators a great foretaste, a cook was cooking till they arrived at the Rote Fabrik where the
finished meal was served.
The ‘improkitchen’ is used as kitchen and is also at the same time the stage design. The ‘improkitchen’ sessions will go on for a year in the Fabriktheater Zurich till a final performance piece is being shown.
