Abstract
- BENTGABLENITS and Teenage Engineering reveal the BGN–11, that includes 10 handcrafted audio system housed in reimagined Thirties dollhouses
- The collab will launch on June 27 with an immersive NYC set up, the place collectible designs and artist-inspired items may also be out there
BENTGABLENITS and Teenage Engineering are partnering as much as unveil the primary chapter of their restricted collaboration: the BGN–11. Restricted to 10 distinctive editions, these handcrafted audio system are constructed from reimagined Thirties steel dollhouses, providing an interesting mix of classic aesthetics and trendy audio engineering. Every version contains a totally purposeful OD-11 speaker, rigorously housed inside a novel construction that has been meticulously stitched, wired and weathered by hand. This intricate course of transforms nostalgic objects into purposeful artistic endeavors, bridging the previous and current via sound.
This restricted launch is greater than a fusion of audio and design—it’s a bodily meditation on nostalgia and storytelling. BENTGABLENITS founders Brenda Bent, Karen Gable and Angelo Nitsopoulos describe the venture as a dialogue between the tactile soul of handcraft and the futuristic minimalism of Teenage Engineering’s know-how. “We thought the speaker associated to house,” Gable displays, “and house is one thing that we may cope with. It turned about creating a house.”
Rooted within the founders’ lifelong follow of amassing and reinterpreting ignored objects, the BGN–11 exemplifies a shared ethos between each manufacturers: reverence for the previous and innovation within the current. Although divergent in aesthetics – one grounded in vintage textures, the opposite in modern modernism – the 2 manufacturers converge via a mutual dedication to craft and narrative. “We discover magnificence in issues that may sound obscure,” says Nitsopoulos. “It’s this ongoing dialogue between previous and current, and likewise reminiscence and reinvention.”
The BGN–11 will launch on June 27 through a particular web site. That is accompanied by an immersive three-day set up at 131 Greene Road, New York Metropolis. The set up may also showcase hand-beaded classic artist and musician T-shirts, together with different Teenage Engineering collectible editions — inviting guests to totally have interaction with this distinctive fusion of artwork, sound and nostalgia.
