What usually ends in disaster with filled bowls is here the deliberately kinetic aspect: By gently tapping, CUT tilts from the vertical and offers its contents to the counterpart. The most graceful form of supply and demand. CUT, the new bowl made of striking end-grain wood, thus follows a Hartauer family tradition. If he lets his order system METERWARE run as if on rails, turns his wooden bowls KASA around its own axis, for him the tilting as a fascination is in the foreground in the series CUT. The moment occurs silently, touching the bowl becomes a haptic pleasure. Wolfgangs Hartauer’s products are small marvels. The kinetic aspect of CUT was preceded by experiments with the bowls KASA. “The stacking bowls were cut at an angle on the underside to turn them into tilting bowls,” Hartauer reports. “The trigger for the basic cylindrical shape was the realization that the effect of “canting out” could be enhanced by a larger diameter.” “Movement and changeability on the type shell” is the red thread of his three products.

Everything fits, nothing catches, it’s all playfully experiential and accessible. Sensuous, tactile and precise, all at the same time. Asked what he will do in the next life, Hartauer is quick to respond: become a watchmaker. Surprising? Not really, rather the logical consequence of his approach to aesthetics and order, and truly befitting of him.