KATHARINA MARIA BRUCKNER, HERBERT KLAMMINGER, HANS STEFAN
MORITSCH

For bkm, design is the search for the unconscious of things. It is the attempt to make the intangible tangible. Design for them means working on the emergence of awareness. They direct their attention to inner processes, archetypes, and apparent trivialities. What bkm does is observe objects, their essence. With their designs, the initial impetus often comes from no more than a hint of a specific atmosphere. The final product is an amalgamation of hitherto hidden elements of the intangible.

bkm beholds the user in the respective microcosm of objects surrounding him or her. Many of these are tools, while others fulfill representational tasks and still others are wholly personal objects. A hierarchy of things emerges dependent of their relationship to the person. As in the case of their seating object ONESQUARED in the tradition of a love seat, the crucial requirements for the design are formulated only by observing a complex interplay between people and objects.