TAU / Milica Jović
A spiral bowl made during Rest Wood Design workshop, intended for use as a fruit bowl or as a stand for floral
arrangements. Material: ash wood off-cuts (leftovers from parquet production), glued using two-component adhesive. The University of Belgrade’s Furniture and Interior

Design Department - Wood Processing & Furniture Design - was founded in 2005. Their exhibitions and design workshops are aimed primarily at developing new products with an emphasis on sustainable design and innovative utilization of wood waste, which results in many successful prototypes, many awarded and published. A few of these have become part of the Wood Waste Utilization Project, organized in cooperation with the Furniture Quality Testing Laboratory at the university. The department holds regular exhibitions and sustainable design workshops with the aim of promoting environmental concerns and sustainable creativity. Here, a select, incomplete yet largely representative selection.

mies rollo / Uroš Vitas
Mies Rollo is a chair prototype that could be easily wrapped up for one to carry or put away for storage. Main idea was guided by principles, conditions and forces that outbreak in inner and outer layers during bending operations, which suggested replacing the “outer layer” with a different kind of material.
Using this principle on a chairmight improve the construction process for the upcoming palette of products following the same concept. Shape inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s MR10 chair. Construction consist largely of shorter elements usually considered waste.
Material: cherry wood off-cuts, 25 X 25 X 100 mm and 25 X 25 X 680 mm, connected/glued to hemp band. Elements divided into four groups and processed
with different angles in order to form desired shape of construction.

zig-zag /Saša Samardzić
Multifunctional product using only wood off-cuts (leftovers from local parquet factory). Consists of modular elements connected by simple disassembly vertical-sliding joints which can be easily
slipped in or drawn out of the system without additional fastening.
Serves as a stool, coffee table, magazine stand or sculpture.
Shape inspired by Serbian ethno-fashions which conveniently contributed to stability in horizontal directions.
Material: ash wood off-cuts (leftovers from a parquet production) glued using two-component adhesive.

trigami / Kristina Radosavljević
Stool inspired by the graphic expression of origami (Japanese art of folding paper). An idea to work consciously with light
and shadows resulted in a sculptural chair with architectonic appearance. Product design that’s ready to go when you are - by
car, train plane, whatever, wherever.
Material: Made of plywood upholstered with felt.

tweeny / Emir Beciragić
Wooden chair inspired by life in small spaces. Folding, elegant, functional, with one armrest/backrest and conveniently
triangle-shaped seat enabling usage from different sides. Could be called the “thinking chair” because, using one armrest while sitting affords a good position in which to to think.
Material: naturally-stained solid beech elements connected using standard wooden joints and metal hinges.

laganca / Aleksandar Blagojević
Lightweight chair, modern and stackable, made from tiny elements in order to show that even thin wood cut-offs can form light and elegant structures. Became a part of
Wood Waste Utilization Project at the University. Goal was a lightweight, sustainable, and ecological product, which
shifts boundaries of wood usage.
Material: maple or ash off-cuts connected using finger joints and overlap techniques in seat area.

boomerang / Nikola Petković
Multifunctional chair made from one type of element following boomerang shape; designed in accordance with anthropological means of human body. Consists of two macro parts - seat/backrest and pedestal, which can be rotated respectively forming different shapes and functions (a chair, a stool and a table). Main idea was functionality and simplicity, as
well as easy packing and transport.
Material: plywood corner off-cuts with solid ash wood distances and inox stabilizers.
Projects here, together with other similar projects, were recently exhibited at the Talent Zone Exhibition, Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, 2007.

Wood Processing & Furniture Design, Furniture And Interior Design Department, University Of Belgrade
Project Mentor: Assistant professor Jelena Matić

Author: Jeff Bickert