Our September edit stays close to the object. Four practices working across furniture, homeware and industrial design, each starting from a material or a method and letting it carry the meaning.
This month, we're featuring:
Roc H Biel
Rohling
Kilian Vos
LESORR
Each was featured as Project of the Week throughout September. Here's a closer look at the work.
Roc H Biel's Martian Relics: Domestic Objects from an Imagined Future
Roc H Biel describes his objects as memories from a future that never happened. Originally from Barcelona, he grew up around his father's workshop, where special effects for film were made, and moved to London in 2018 to study at the Royal College of Art. His background in sound and photography still shapes the practice, which moves between product design, installation and image-making, and keeps returning to one question: how technology shapes what we accept as real.
© Roc H Biel
Martian Relics, his latest collection, consists of five domestic objects: a plate, a mirror, a window, a flower pot and a water filter. The project takes the idea of settling Mars at face value and follows it through. If people are shaped by their tools and environments, life on an arid planet would change what we know, how we see ourselves, what we miss, what we believe and how we treat water. Each object takes one of these as its subject.
The materials carry the argument. Rammed earth, one of the oldest construction methods, is what scarcity would return us to. The recycled stainless steel comes from valves, pressurant tanks and panel offcuts, aerospace parts broken down into household things. "In such a future, recycling would no longer be a virtue or an aesthetic," Biel says. "It would be the only way forward." Drawing on his experience in industrial mould design, he developed moulds of up to twelve parts for a single-axis press that compacts the earth layer by layer, which allowed a level of detail rammed earth rarely reaches.
© Roc H Biel
The images are often taken for renders, but no CGI is involved: everything was made in his London studio and photographed by Biel himself in Lanzarote, where the European Space Agency trains astronauts on volcanic terrain close to that of Mars.
Rohling Armchair Type 1: Uncoated Aluminum, Bolts and Nuts
Rohling is a Berlin-based furniture brand, and its first product is a single chair. Armchair Type 1, designed by Studio Gil Russ and Brian Chen, is made from 100% aluminum. The first prototypes used standard L-profiles and identical fasteners, and that restraint stayed in the final piece. The construction is the design.
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© Rohling
The chair is produced in an edition of 100, each engraved with its number. Because the metal is left uncoated, the surface reacts to its surroundings: it picks up light and throws shadows that shift through the day, and over time it develops a patina from use. No two chairs age the same way.
Kilian Vos: Sculptural Objects Between CGI and Physical Form
Kilian Vos is a 3D artist and designer based in Amsterdam. Her work sits between the digital and the physical: virtual environments that feel tangible, and objects that move between screen and space. Combining CGI with physical fabrication, she builds sculptural forms and imagined interiors that make it hard to tell what has been made and what has been simulated.
© Kilian Vos
She treats CGI as part of product design rather than a way of presenting it, and she sees the dialogue between the two as a source of new ways to experience objects and spaces. Her Future Fossils carpets for Moooi were generated entirely through CGI, with textures that recall mineral veins and fractured stone formed by code instead of time. She has also worked on 3D animation for ASICS with Maha Amsterdam.
© Kilian Vos
Her work has been exhibited at PAN Amsterdam and Nxt Museum. Her work is bold and sculptural, attentive to texture and atmosphere and it comes from someone equally fluent in software and in making.
LESORR's Rounded Edges Collection: Industrial Aluminum, Softened
Les Objets Raymond Raymond, or LESORR, is a Canadian design studio founded by David Raymond in early 2023. The catalogue covers collectible objects, commercial products and custom commissions, and everything begins with raw material. The studio lets the physical and graphic qualities of the matter lead, often taking cues from ordinary things in daily life.
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The Rounded Edges Collection applies this to aluminum. The metal stays raw and industrial, but every corner is softened. The first pieces appeared in 2023; a second chapter in 2025 added a modular bookshelf, a console, side tables and a table lamp. In the lounge chair, raw brushed aluminum meets a leather seat and backrest, and the collection's recognisable split runs through the back. The black oxide finish is applied by hand, so each piece varies slightly.
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Raymond has spoken about raw aluminum as a reactive material: it develops a patina and keeps the marks of use, much like a soft wood. The generous curves slow down how the pieces are read and handled. They are heavy in presence without being loud.
Projects of The Month
It's a short list, and it still manages to go from Berlin to a volcanic island standing in for Mars. The pieces are slow to make and slow to age, and they're better for it.
Throughout September, Roc H Biel, Rohling, Kilian Vos and LESORR joined our Project of The Week section, where we curate standout projects, practices and brands across design, art, fashion and craft. Last month we looked at the sculptural side of object-making, where forms are freer and less bound by function.
