Berlin based designer Michael Hilgers has always devoted himself to the interfaces between urban architecture and nature, as well as spatially limited living and working.

 

In 2005, he came up with his STECKLING, the first planter that combines symbiotically with architecture by being placed on a balcony railing without the need for tools.

 

At the time, no manufacturer was able to recognize the potential of this innovative idea. So Hilgers founded the rephorm Edition in order to be able to offer his objects in a self-published, limited small series.

 

These plastic objects for architecturally-based outdoor spaces are not mass-produced products, but are created using rotational molding - one of the oldest, most time-consuming and most labor-intensive processes in plastic molding.

 

In a Brandenburg plastics factory, a maximum of ten thick-walled, almost indestructible containers are made per day from almost completely recyclable plastic. Through manual processing (demolding, deburring, flaming...) each object becomes unique with a personal character.

 

As the mold wears out during the manufacturing process, the number of objects produced is limited. This is not an artificial shortage, but a completed cycle.

 

This traditional manufacturing process deliberately sets itself apart from the industrial mass production of cheap Asian and Eastern European imitators.

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rephormhaus is the official webshop of the rephorm label

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