Jeg hedder Tobben Messen og jeg er design-managerer i Danes arkitekterfisker, der hedder OS-Arkitekterne.
For de kommende 8 år har vi gjort design af alle de nye produkter for Vola.
Vola er Danes design brand, der producerer baser og fikter på en faktoriet, der er her i Horses, hvor vi er nu.
Det startede i 60'erne med Verna Orgaard og Arne Jacobsen.
Det større for dem var at hælde alle ting til vores valg, som ikke er vigtigt for dig som en user.
I dag er interiets hos planen meget åbent.
Jeg tror, at basen har blivet en meget vigtig rum, hvor vi kan retage, hvor vi kan gå tilbage, lukke døren og være.
Vi ser mange produkter med LED-lægninger og touchscreens, og jeg tror, at det er meget større.
For mig, som designer og for Vola, er det meget vigtigt at putte ind nye teknologier.
Nogle vil ikke touche tapen, som ikke vil touche den sovdisk penser.
Men det er også vigtigt at putte det ud og bygge den tekniske part af valget,
men lukke det rundt og geometriske, hvor du kan putte ind i vores hånd.
En af min favorit produkter, som vi designer for Vola, er Taule Hedder, T-39.
For mig er det at opdage alle ting, som Vola er stand for.
The product is very simple. It is extruded aluminium bar, which is put into the wall,
and in this aluminium bar you drill the holes with the customized gap between them
and the customized number of bars and build in the whole thing into the wall,
so only leaving the bars visible. It's very much like Vola.
Another product that have a big place in my design heart is round head shower, the 060.
I think this really is a good line back to the first product.
We of course got the circle, we got the cylinder,
and the way that we work into the cylinder is very important to us.
You see the nozzles? They are retracted from the surface.
We also got a track here around.
It's also a track that make the plate here floating, make it more easy to look at.
The simplicity of the geometry is very, very important,
so it means that the small details become very important in the design.
It means that one millimeter can change everything.
The shower head, not a molded part, it's not a welded part,
is made out of a massive cylinder where you cut slices, just like a salami,
and you melt the massive part away.
One of the most important steps is the brushing of the product.
When I designed it, they said to me, we can only do it in one direction.
I said, ah, no, this is a round piece, so we have to do it in a round way.
Ah, they couldn't. But I come down the week after, then they have done it.
So here I see where design and handcraft is going hand in hand.
And for me it's very important that it's not only designed in Denmark,
it's also produced in Denmark, which is very seldom for that kind of products.
So every time I go through the factory, I become glad because, hey,
that's here that produce all the things that we have to be designing,
so that makes me happy.
