Unseen Objects / Overflow

This furniture collection from the Unseen Objects series redefines the cultural value of casting practices long overlooked in design — reinterpreting not only the finished form, but the processes, tools and material behaviour that produce it. Developed through extensive research at Heiwa Gokin’s foundry, the project focuses on burrs: the excess material that forms along the seams of sand moulds as molten metal solidifies, normally removed during finishing. Rather than discarding them as imperfections, the project treats burrs as material traces intrinsic to the casting process itself. Panels cast with their burrs intact are layered and combined with aluminium boards to construct shelves and low tables — translating industrial material behaviour into the structural language of furniture.