Founded by Hyunseog Oh, the Seoul-based Niceworkshop caught the design world’s attention with its inaugural collection dedicated to the humble bolt. Now, with its first solo showing at Capsule Plaza, the studio aims to disrupt the life cycle of industrial materials with an exploration into aluminium formwork.
According to Niceworkshop founder Hyunseog Oh, a stint on construction sites early in his career first piqued his interest in industrial materials. Following his graduation from the interior architecture programme at Soongsil University in Seoul, he worked at a design firm, where, he says, he ‘learned about making furniture, but was also doing some construction work’. When the time came to produce his first collection, he naturally drew on that experience. That series, ‘Bolt’, utilised long threaded screws as the primary structural element of a bench, chair and side table, which he described atthe time as the transformation of an industrial material into a sculpture.
