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Chris Kabel

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Here comes the sunDotted with optical filters, prisms and reflectors, this façade for the extension of a high school in Amsterdam talks to pupils about light in a playful and immersive way.  Binder KlinkerThis historically inspired brick is an open invitation to guide plants along brick façades.  Leeuwenhoek Bench90 meter long version of the brick bench with a glaze that gradually changes from green to red.  Wall SpaceWall space is an intervention commissioned by Headlands Center for the Arts that transforms the Californian sun and the shadows it casts into ink or paint for artists and writers to express themselves. Field BenchTwo gates of rotatable benches and a fence to sit on mark the otherwise barely visible boundary that separates a publicly accessible estate from the surrounding forest. FloorfillerFoot massage floor pattern for the Winter Anti Depression Show in MARRES in Maastricht. Office Party for PortikusOffice Party is a permanent light installation conceived for Portikus in Frankfurt. Stack RingReplica of the Wood Ring bench for Beijing Design Week 2013 created in cooperation with a small local plastic injection-moulding factory called Beijing Green Leave and New Land Plastic Company. Fogo FindsCast bronze key fobs for the rooms of the Fogo Island Inn on Fogo Island, a very special island in front of the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. BentAluminum sheet is perforated with a pattern that allows the shapes to be bent up or down. When bent up the surface catches the (sun)light and bent down the surface is shaded. Foil FlowersFor the one year anniversary of their shop in Beijing, Asia's number one high-end fashion store Lane Crawford asked me to design something impressive and decorative. Wood RingA 10 meter long wood beam is cut in a hundred tapered pieces that, when put together, make a circular bench. Lace MapA gigantic city map of Bruges, lace capital of Belgium, where streets, alleyways, street and as well as monuments and street names are knitted into a lace pattern onto which tourists can find their way. Fence BenchCity bench for the city of Nijverdal in the shape of a farm fence that pivots so you can sit opposite or next to each other. Floating LensesIn 2005 I was asked to propose a way to celebrate the opening the Cheonoggyecheon river in Seoul. Gold CircuitIn 2005 I was asked to participate in an exhibition in a school building that was soon to be demolished. The building was in such a bad state that the electrical circuitry didn't work anymore. So I installed a brand new shiny golden electrical emergency circuit in the hallways and the in exhibition spaces