Post-Industrial Ornaments
Working Stock

Working Stock

Working Stock is the furniture project of Desque. It draws from the same industrial supply, but the materials extend beyond steelwork stock into the wider world of industrial fabrication like chequer plate, material not typically used in furniture. Pieces are built from the studio's working stock: some material bought new, some carried over from previous work, some bought as offcuts.

Working Stock 0.1

Front view of a raw mild-steel bench with a chequer-plate seat and thin rail back, in a bare concrete room.
Three-quarter view of the raw steel bench showing the welded frame and rail.
End-on view along the chequer-plate top of the raw steel bench.
Long profile of the raw steel bench, seat and rail running the length of the frame.

Working Stock 0.2

Front view of a steel bench coated in ultramarine blue, with a raw chequer-plate seat.
Three-quarter view of the ultramarine bench and its blocky legs.
End detail of the ultramarine bench where the blue frame meets the raw chequer-plate top.
Archival end-on view down the length of the ultramarine bench.