Serbian Designers: Antipod Studio
by Georgia Klebleev
Branko Nikolic, Petar Savic and Milan Stefanovic are Serbia’s new exported talents on Europe’s design scene. All three graduated the Belgrade Art University and after collaborating on several projects, founded Antipod Studio.
Their idea was to include consciousness as one of the key pointers in the design process – ethics before esthetics. Their work involves multidisciplinary projects in the field of architecture, interior, and furniture design and is based on certain adopted principles that they highly respect: simplicity, innovation, sincerity, adequacy, inconspicuousness, sustainability.
Alongside with other eleven exceptional projects, some of their products were showcased in the exhibit Young Serbian Designers within Salone Satellite Milan, all selected by a jury chaired by world renowned designer Konstantin Grčić .
TRIANGLE a modular table of a simple geometric form. A cube is cut diagonally, which makes it combinable. It can be placed alone or combined into larger, more diverse compositions, placed in a corner or stacked one upon the other as an improvised shelf. If painted in two contrasting colors (inner and outer surface) it becomes particularly attractive.
TEAT is a three-legged stool, a contemporary interpretation of side seating, obviously inspired by the rural. The idea was to achieve a contemporary form, but to remind us of the primeveal. The inspiration was combining symetrical forms produced on the turning-lathe. It is simple to make, eco-friendly, suitable for industrial production or simple manufacture.
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