Animals Console
The Animals Console is created by devising a method that interprets a classic French stool and bench typology, the kind seen across the brocantes of Paris.
Instead of carving a mortise in the top for each leg, we collect and cut studio scraps at a five degree angle and carefully compose them in a double layer patchwork that captures the legs. It saves the rigorous carving, fits tight, and it holds a reclaimed leg of any dimension, so almost nothing has to be refined away. Nothing is carved to fit. The scrap keeps its shape and becomes the piece.
We named the series Animals because it works like a biological process. A system that adapts to whatever material is available, absorbing waste back into itself while making no new waste. It is the bottom feeder of our studio. In the maritimes of Canada, where Paul grew up, the lobster was the classic tale of a bottom feeder that became prized. This is the same idea.
The wood comes from workshop offcuts and from solid timber collected out of buildings being demolished. There is value in material we would typically throw away, and the series exists to use it in a way the wood deserves. It is a simple but rigorous system that raises scrap to a collectible object. The value is not in the material. It is in what you make of it.
At console height the method has more to do. The legs run longer so the top is thicker to support more structurally, and the patchwork carries lateral load that a carved mortise would normally take. Resolving that without adding a visible member is the work in this piece.
Placed beside the Standard Console or the Foundation Console it shows two positions on the same typology. One geometry we design, one the salvaged material dictates.
The Animals series is ongoing. It began with a bench and a stool, and now includes a console. More to come.
Hand-built and hand-finished in our atelier in Paris. Studio Goons is a Paris-based collectible furniture and design atelier founded in 2020 by architect Paul Trussler and designer Mia Kim. Every piece is made to order, signed and numbered.
- Material
- Architectural Reclaimed Wood, Scandinavian Birch Plywood
- Dimensions
- 139 × 39.5 × 75 cm or Custom Dimensions
- Finish
- Matte Wenge or Custom Finish
- Lead Time
- 4 to 6 weeks
- Edition
- Signed, numbered
- Made in
- France
- Price
- €4,580
- Availability
- In Stock
Standard finishes shown. Custom finishes and materials available on request.
Each work, made to measure. Dimensions, finishes, and materials are resolved in conversation with the studio.
