In Berlin we met the two designers Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa. They talk about some of their works, including “Patch up London”, a “presouvenir”; “tools you bake”, a series of six hand-spun baking bowls developed in collaboration with the metal goods factory Hugo Bräuer in Berlin; “hoch die Tassen”, unique cups made of discarded second hand cups and a prefabricated glass stems. Interview: Sabine Trieloff. Berlinomat, Berlin/Germany, September 30, 2006.<br /><br />Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002.<br /><br />Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren.<br /><br />Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches in Reykjavik, Weimar and San Francisco amongst others.
