THE ARTISTÉS KARNIVAL: 'THE PENCIL BENCH' BY THE BOEX TWINS

SAM & WILL BOEX , U.K.

ABOUT BOEX –

"A fresh-thinking interior & product design agency creating environments to enhance wellbeing. Working in healthcare, retail & furniture design to produce innovative design solutions.

Established in 2004 and run by twin brothers Sam and Will Boex, since starting the company Boex have pioneered a number of innovative projects within the south-west. Recent years have seen the company expanding into the highly challenging area of healthcare design, with this specialist experience now gaining Boex projects across the UK, receiving recognition on an international level."

BOEX BROTHERS’ STATEMENT –

“ We are passionate about excellent design and relish the challenge of finding innovative and stylish architectural and interior solutions to complex problems. The way that people view and interact with the environment around them fascinates us – as a result, we are proud to have produced some highly original and award-winning projects across a range of sectors.

Our priority is to help our clients achieve their goals, whether these goals are the number of covers in a new restaurant or calmer patients in a hospital’s A&E department. Boex provides a friendly yet highly professional service, giving you peace of mind that your project will be delivered on brief, on time and on budget. We are open to any challenge no matter how traditional or unconventional.”

EMAIL - studio@boex.co.uk

CALL - 01326 563253

SOURCES –

BOEX’S OFFICIAL WEBSITE - http://www.boex.co.uk/

BOEX’S BLOG - http://www.boex.co.uk/blog/

BOEX ON FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/boex3d

BOEX ON TWITTER - https://twitter.com/Boex3d

THE PENCIL BENCH

Designed from a single conversation to see if they could incorporate an everyday office object into a piece of furniture, they designed this quirky bench seat for D&AD in 2007 . It ended up causing quite a stir across the design world, scooping two awards for Boex and being featured in a number of national design journals. The seat is made up of 1,600 pink pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used.

THE PENCIL BENCH IN BLACK

Boex had been commissioned by Jeff Salmon from Four Rooms, to produce another Pencil Bench. This piece of furniture is constructed from walnut with over 2000 pink pencils fitted end up. This one has been designed at 2m long and given a jet black finish.