Wallpaper - 10.2019

Designed for official functions and

lectures, as well as to encourage

exploration of the book as a

medium, this folding bookstand

for Whitechapel Gallery director

Iwona Blazwick supports the

weight of books through a clever

hinge mechanism. ‘It is made of

ply and covered with the sort

of canvas textile that is commonly

used to cover books,’ explain

Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer (pictured

here) of design studio Raw-Edges.

Project:

‘WOODEN HINGE’

Designer:

RAW-EDGES

Institution:

WHITECHAPEL

GALLERY

PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SINDEN WRITER: MARK HOOPER

As we arrive at Benchmark Furniture’s Berkshire

HQ, we interrupt a breakaway interrogation of

a troublesome hinge – part of an elegant design for

a portable lectern drawn up by Raw-Edges’ Yael Mer

and Shay Alkalay for Iwona Blazwick, director of the

Whitechapel Gallery. This is just one of ten pieces

that form the Legacy project, the latest collaboration

between Benchmark and the American Hardwood (^) »
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