July 2024
We were invited to take part in the first edition of the Festival of the Forest organized by The School of Bunești, an event dedicated to lumber and its derived products, which proposes the formation of a network linking designers, builders and customers, by exchanging ideas, building and sustainable living principles. Our team presented a series of wood-based materials that we usually process and shared some inside glimpses about our work.
June 2024
Our project "Observator Codrii Iașilor" (authored by ZO Kraft: Ionuț Toma and Andrei Pripasu), designed and built in 2021, was awarded with the First Prize in the "Architect in the Community - Ephemeral" in the Moldova Architectural Regional Gala organized by The Romanian Order of Architects, Iași branch. We feel honoured to see the appreciation that our project received from an architecture jury, considering that we are discretely being active at the periphery of the domain.
May 2024
The results for the National Furniture Design Competition - first stage, organized by de Romanian Furniture Manufacturers Association, were announced. We were awarded an honourable mention for our competition proposal - "Freestanding wooden coat hanger". The next stage involves the making of a physical prototype in order to have it exhibited at BIFE-SIM, an event that is relevant to the whole furniture industry in Romania, taking place at ROMEXPO - Bucharest, 19– 22 September 2024.
October 2023
Installing of a series of artworks in the frame of a contemporary art exhibition - Disturbances and Erosions curated by Cristina David, inside the Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest. The project includes an important educational component, aiming to develop communication between contemporary art and scientific disciplines, such as geography and environmental studies.
June 2022
We were glad to be featured with a custom-built revolving cabinet in From waste to experimental couture, a small gallery exhibition format, consisting of clothing and accessories made of sustainable materials. The exhibition took place in the frame of Romanian Creative Week 2022 festival
December 2021
Partnering 1+1 and tranzit.ro/Iași, we have designed and produced a series of exhibition furniture pieces, which were used for Structures and infrastructures, held at Galeria Aparte in Iași, December 3-8 2021.
September 2021
We were comissioned by Greenpeace Romania to design, build, and install a temporary pavillion on top of Repedea Plateau, as a starting point for the Codrii Iașilor hiking trail.
June 2021
We are happy to be featured in Horror Vacui - Iași, Palatul Braunstein, June 5-7 2021, "an exhibition of the creative industries about contemporary aesthethics, heritage wisdom, craft techniques and the ethics of these worlds coming together". We will be present with our T20 Desk. The event is part of Romanian Creative Week.
May 2021
We are returning to The School of Bunești to build a new timber structure using traditional joinery and underground set posts.
August 2020
We are joining the School of Bunești summer school format where we are going to lead a timber framing workshop.
November 2019
Our workshop is up and running! Stay tuned for further events.