Studio Makkink and Bey will debut their new Crate Series on November 5th at Spring Projects in London. The studio have transformed generic household crates into cabinets that serve different functions, from bathing to sleeping.
The series originates from a trip to India made by Rianne Makkink, where she noticed that people used crates as makeshift houses, shops and workspaces: "Crates were piled on top of each other, as needed, creating new rooms: packing and unpacking no longer necessary."
The intimate spaces that Makkink & Bey sought to create comes from their experiences in their own office, an enormous industrial warehouse that begged for the creation of smaller, private parcels of workspace. Instead of building walls and doors, the studio elected to work between the scale of architecture and furniture, creating a much more flexible, packable studio infrastructure.