Following on from their colourful series of ceramic resin Fuzz bowls launched in 2010, London based design duo Study O Portable have introduced a metal version of the same design called Metal Fuzz. Instead of the layers of ceramic resin that were used to build the original Fuzz bowls, thin layers of aluminum and brass are applied on to a spherical core, gradually forming a sphere with a textured bronze exterior. It’s only when the sphere is cut open that it’s carefully constructed layers are revealed.

The duo explain that they were keen to revisit this design process and to experiment with a new material “The new version of something old is often the basis of our intentions to design, desiring to produce a new quality in an object.”

The bowls will be exhibited for the first time by Gallery FUMI at Pavillon des Arts et du Design in Paris later this month.

- A.Morris