honest materials.
Pressed glass and polished chrome, used as themselves. Nothing is painted, wrapped or made to look like something it isn't.
About / Recast
Version 001
recast.
recast: to change the form, structure or organisation of something.
We take familiar architectural materials and give them a new role in the home. Version 001 starts with the glass block.
Fig. 01
The glass block, built in
01 / Origin
For most of the last century, glass blocks were built into walls, stairwells and basements. They were there to let light through, never to be looked at.
02 / Principles
principles.
Three rules every Recast object has to follow.
light as a material.
Light is designed in, not added on. A CRI 90 LED sits beneath the glass with an in-line dimmer: warm white for the evening, and 15 colour films for when you want a change.
one object at a time.
Each Version starts with one familiar architectural form and stays with it until it's right. Version 001 is the glass block.
03 / From the studio
Recast started with a simple question: what happens when you take a building material out of the wall and give it a room of its own?
Block 01 is the first answer. Every version after it will start the same way: with something familiar, looked at again.
Aaron PearsonFounder, Recast
Version 001