Meterware series
Space-defining table-top trays
Meterware is a modular, multifunctional tray system that wants to be filled by you! By moving the individual units you can constantly create newly defined spaces. Meterware stands out for its mobility, bright colours and the contrast between cool aluminium and warm wood and felt. Its high-quality materials look minimal, its design is timeless.
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The Meterware tray system playfully organises your desk and adapts to your needs. Hence a standard product becomes an individual and customized one-off. All parts of the system are “made in Germany“ by carefully selected small companies who use high-quality materials and demonstrate their fine craftsmanship.
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Eiche massiv / Solid oak
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Nussbaum massiv / Solid walnut
The qualified carpenter and trained architect, who freely admits he likes to work with his hands, went freelance in 2014 with his design firm Interior Things based in Holzminden. The central theme of his work is creating clear designs and order through passion and precision. Thus also arose “Meterware”, his desk and wall tray system. True to Hartauer’s intent, a design that urges: “Take me in your hands and move me!” Powder-coated aluminium profiles hold stylish wooden or felt trays.
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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.
Kasa
From table culture to table sculpture
This brings back memories of the good old pencil box: KASA, the Finnish word for “stack”, is the name of the new tray system Wolfgang Hartauer has designed for Tecta. “For me it‘s a sculpture – architecture en miniature,” the designer comments on his elegant wooden trays that come in round and oval shapes. And thanks to the soft grey felt disks on the bottom they are so much more than just lovely to look at. Pared and rounded down, he has added a exible joint to KASA making the system stackable, revolvable and movable.
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This allows you to create miniature sculptures on your desk in a matter of seconds. They share a purpose all of Hartauer’s designs have in common: to add a bit of magic and humour to everyday life. Not to upend the natural order of things, but to keep it alive with fresh new ideas. With its geometric rigour and intelligent playfulness KASA strikes the same chord as Hartauer’s “Meterware” system. Meterware fans will realise that the tray interior has the same dimensions but now also forms the outline. Like a building, the texture of the trays is soft and vibrant. Volume, light and shadow are explored on a small scale to create a coherent structure. A kinetic system for desk and storage.
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Ahorn massiv / Solid Maple
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Eiche massiv / Solid oak
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Nussbaum massiv / Solid walnut
The qualified carpenter and trained architect, who freely admits he likes to work with his hands, went freelance in 2014 with his design firm Interior Things based in Holzminden. The central theme of his work is creating clear designs and order through passion and precision. Thus also arose “Meterware”, his desk and wall tray system. True to Hartauer’s intent, a design that urges: “Take me in your hands and move me!” Powder-coated aluminium profiles hold stylish wooden or felt trays.
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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.
CUT series
Beautiful in inclined position
Subtle gesture: The new CUT bowls by Wolfgang Hartauer are all about kinetics in its most beautiful form – the gallant offer to help yourself. Sensual and elegant – the first impulse is to touch the new bowls by Wolfgang Hartauer, to take them in your hand – and yes, to tilt them.
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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.
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Ahorn massiv / Solid Maple
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Eiche massiv / Solid oak
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Nussbaum massiv / Solid walnut
The qualified carpenter and trained architect, who freely admits he likes to work with his hands, went freelance in 2014 with his design firm Interior Things based in Holzminden. The central theme of his work is creating clear designs and order through passion and precision. Thus also arose “Meterware”, his desk and wall tray system. True to Hartauer’s intent, a design that urges: “Take me in your hands and move me!” Powder-coated aluminium profiles hold stylish wooden or felt trays.
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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.
K8 series
Architecture on a small scale
Tap it lightly and the tabletop opens out. You virtually expect some kind of buzzing sound but the movement follows your hand noiselessly. Wolfgang Hartauer’s tables are ingenious marvels. Sculptural cylinders that make a statement out of a room. Hartauer designed them while looking for a decent coffee table.
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Nothing suitable to be found? He made a virtue of necessity and simply created one himself. Ulm-born Hartauer, who studied architecture in Munich, shaped rings out of MDF boards and joined them together seamlessly like the annual growth rings on a tree. For him the fact that the base of the larger table would remain hollow had a beneficial side effect in that it provided storage space.
This table is not just a table. The black lacquered MDF rings lend it a structure. The revolving tabletop that opens out to the side can be used to store things and allows you to look inside. Hartauer’s motto: »All that is revealed must be beautiful.« The interior is striking: meticulously crafted with a stainless steel shaft that revolves noiselessly on slide bearings and makes the whole thing movable. Perfect like clockwork.
K8A
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MDF rot-lackiert RAL 3002
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MDF schwarz-lackiert RAL 9005
The qualified carpenter and trained architect, who freely admits he likes to work with his hands, went freelance in 2014 with his design firm Interior Things based in Holzminden. The central theme of his work is creating clear designs and order through passion and precision. Thus also arose “Meterware”, his desk and wall tray system. True to Hartauer’s intent, a design that urges: “Take me in your hands and move me!” Powder-coated aluminium profiles hold stylish wooden or felt trays.
+ read more
- einklappen
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.
CUT series
Beautiful in inclined position
Subtle gesture: The new CUT bowls by Wolfgang Hartauer are all about kinetics in its most beautiful form – the gallant offer to help yourself. Sensual and elegant – the first impulse is to touch the new bowls by Wolfgang Hartauer, to take them in your hand – and yes, to tilt them.
+ read more
- einklappen
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.
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Ahorn massiv / Solid Maple
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Eiche massiv / Solid oak
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Nussbaum massiv / Solid walnut
The qualified carpenter and trained architect, who freely admits he likes to work with his hands, went freelance in 2014 with his design firm Interior Things based in Holzminden. The central theme of his work is creating clear designs and order through passion and precision. Thus also arose “Meterware”, his desk and wall tray system. True to Hartauer’s intent, a design that urges: “Take me in your hands and move me!” Powder-coated aluminium profiles hold stylish wooden or felt trays.
+ read more
- einklappen
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.