Eggwave by WertelOberfell for Neff
Product news: new Neff fridges will come with this golf-ball-textured extendable egg tray by German design studio WerterlOberfell.
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WertelOberfell designed Eggwave in collaboration with Tobias Schmidt from appliance-maker Neff.
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The egg tray comprises two interlocking layers, one in white plastic and the other transparent, which can be clipped in three positions to store six, eight or ten eggs.
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"It was a bit of work to get the rippled surface right," said designer Jan Wertel. "We initially tried to digitally generate it, but it still needed a lot of 'manual' work in the CAD software, so it was almost like digital sculpting."
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The first Eggwave trays have a translucent red plastic layer, as pictured below in the story, but the final version will use clear plastic.
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WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel, both former students of Industrial Design at the State Academy of Arts in Stuttgart.
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We previously published on a table by WertelOberfell that mimics fractal growth patterns found in nature.
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Other eggy projects we've featured on Dezeen include a bread roll baked to hold a boiled egg and an exhibition in Liverpool where visitors were invited to roll eggs down seven timber follies.
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Here's some more information from the designers:
Eggwave is an accessory for storing eggs in the fridge. It has been designed for Neff by WertelOberfell, in collaboration with Tobias Schmidt of Neff in-house design, and is shipped with all new Neff fridges. It consists of two undulating, interlocking layers, one in white plastic with a surface structure, the other transparent, that can be clipped onto the base in three positions to allow the storing of six, eight or ten eggs.
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The aim was to give an ordinary everyday product that costs only a few cents in production and often gets thrown away, an almost sculptural quality whilst retaining and improving its functionality over its predecessor.
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Eggwave demonstrates that a relatively uninteresting product typology can become quite exciting. It embodies our digital design process and shows that "digital design", which is kind of a synonym for crazy shapes, can become a mass-produced mainstream product that has an almost invisible serving function.
The dimensions are 90 X 220 X 35 mm.