Oudjat

Xavier Lust

2015

Born in 1969, the Belgian designer Xavier Lust has been conducting design research on furniture and accessories oriented towards industrial production since 1990. Conceived to balance function and looks, high-tech and high-touch, Lust’s projects are always based on the conviction that innovation and experimentation are the protagonists of any creative process, to find solutions that address the quality of form of the finished product as well as the technical aspects of its production processes. The leaning towards apparent semantic simplicity in Lust’s works is actually the result of a slow procedure of continuous shaping of surfaces, employed to generate surprising, essential useful objects capable of “crossing time.” This is the case of the Oudjat bench, actually a typology that combines the console with a seat, thus inventing a new genre through the use of bronzed brass sheet that makes this item of furniture plastic and monolithic, like a domestic sculpture.