Bringing craft and technology together with the Curtain family
Brand story by Gerrit Terstiege
Wolfratshausen, Germany
25.05.23
It’s opening night for Zeitraum’s Curtain family of solid-wood furniture. Joining tradition and innovation together with a timeless flowing substructure, Curtain turns a space into a stage.
Schematic view of the strictly geometrical waveforms that characterise all the bases of the Curtain table series
Schematic view of the strictly geometrical waveforms that characterise all the bases of the Curtain table series
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Zenso High
Zeitraum
A current example of how traditional craftsmanship and modern computer technology are combined at Zeitraum is its Curtain table series. It was designed by award-winning Berlin design studio Läufer & Keichel. One half of the duo, Frankfurt-born Marcus Keichel, is a Professor of Product Design at the Dresden University of Applied Sciences. The other, Julia Läufer, meanwhile, hails from Freiburg and worked, at the municipal theatre there, among other places. It was perhaps during this phase of her life that she was inspired with the idea of turning a curtain into a design metaphor for the curtain family? After all, what would a theatre stage be without a curtain? The name ‘Curtain’ incidentally finds its formal counterpart in the wave-like substructure of the table.
A good eye, imagination and a great sense of form: a picture of the finished tabletop is created in the mind as soon as the right wood is selected
A good eye, imagination and a great sense of form: a picture of the finished tabletop is created in the mind as soon as the right wood is selected
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Curtain with Semicircle
Zeitraum
In a way, the furniture series seems like a fleeting snapshot in which time seems to pause. The flowing movement of the substructure plays with our perception. Although it is a pure solid wood table – the wave shape is carved out of the solid material by precise CNC milling – the result has a light and delicate feel.
Zeitraum's Zenso High armchair in combination with the Curtain: each complements the other to form a coherent whole
Zeitraum's Zenso High armchair in combination with the Curtain: each complements the other to form a coherent whole
×Curtain is available in various different wood options, such as white oiled ash, oak, American cherry or American walnut, as well as in rectangular tabletop formats or with semi-circular ends. It of course also comes in different lengths and widths, so that users can choose woods with exactly the grain and proportions that suit the space in question. In addition, Zeitraum also offers custom-made solutions for individualised bespoke projects.
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Friday 1
Zeitraum
Above: two Friday 1 armchairs invite you to relax and a Curtain table extends the ensemble with its shapely and generous storage surface, like a sculpture in the room. Below: Close-up of a Curtain couch in walnut
Above: two Friday 1 armchairs invite you to relax and a Curtain table extends the ensemble with its shapely and generous storage surface, like a sculpture in the room. Below: Close-up of a Curtain couch in walnut
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Curtain
Zeitraum
Now, Läufer & Keichel has continued the Curtain concept and, together with Zeitraum, developed two smaller versions with different functions: One is ‘Curtain Couch’: a large-format, 38 cm high side table that takes the curtain idea a step further. The same goes for ‘Curtain Console’, a slender, 90 cm high console table that relaxedly leans against the wall as an elegant piece of accent furniture, where it can become a staging post for vases, a stack of books or a sculpture: curtains up, then!
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