After 17 Years the Ypsilon Bench Is Awoken
Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken collaborated with Norwegian producer Vestre to bring the simple yet long-awaited Ypsilon bench into the world.
Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken is known worldwide for his designs, interiors, installations, and prototypes ? yet the Ypsilon bench is his first collaboration with a Norwegian producer, Vestre. “I created the design for this bench back in 2005, and have often thought about it over the years. Just before the summer (2022), I contacted Vestre, and they immediately liked the concept. Then it was a quick route to take it into production,? says Rybakken, adding that the shape of the bench hasn’t changed since his first design prototype.
A Vestre hallmark is the brand’s durable, sustainable, well-designed benches for urban environments, which is right in line with Rybakken’s vision. The designer clearly pictured the form and concept of the Ypsilon bench from the start, a simple yet stable design that wasn’t visually cumbersome. And it had to be comfortable. The bench’s stripped down design features angled, linear solid glulam beams, which rest on laser-cut and bent sheets of galvanized steel. The beams provide a comfortable seat, while the slope allows water to quickly run off the seating surface. Glulam beams also make it possible to create very long lengths of the Ypsilon bench.
?The contrasts between the materials are interesting, both between the steel and the glulam, and in the spa...
Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken is known worldwide for his designs, interiors, installations, and prototypes ? yet the Ypsilon bench is his first collaboration with a Norwegian producer, Vestre. “I created the design for this bench back in 2005, and have often thought about it over the years. Just before the summer (2022), I contacted Vestre, and they immediately liked the concept. Then it was a quick route to take it into production,? says Rybakken, adding that the shape of the bench hasn’t changed since his first design prototype.
A Vestre hallmark is the brand’s durable, sustainable, well-designed benches for urban environments, which is right in line with Rybakken’s vision. The designer clearly pictured the form and concept of the Ypsilon bench from the start, a simple yet stable design that wasn’t visually cumbersome. And it had to be comfortable. The bench’s stripped down design features angled, linear solid glulam beams, which rest on laser-cut and bent sheets of galvanized steel. The beams provide a comfortable seat, while the slope allows water to quickly run off the seating surface. Glulam beams also make it possible to create very long lengths of the Ypsilon bench.
?The contrasts between the materials are interesting, both between the steel and the glulam, and in the spa...
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