The Streaks | Bankston and YSG

The Streaks | Bankston and YSG

A playful innovation, The Streaks celebrates timber and pattern within the hardware space. Embodying the latest collaboration between Bankston and YSG, the collection benefits from a challenging brief.Bankston is renowned for pushing the boundaries of architectural hardware. Their previous collection with Edition Office – the Casts collection – explored the duality of sculpture, finding visual lightness in solid forms. In The Streaks, Bankston and YSG reimagine timber as a foundational element of hardware, as opposed to a minor decorative detail. “We started by looking for a gap in the market,” says Yasmine Ghoniem, director at YSG. “There was nothing that we could see that, from a material perspective, championed timber, so we knew that it was something we wanted to pursue. The same process brought us to pattern. We thought ‘Why does a door lever need to be the same as it’s been for the last 150 years? Could it not be something different?’ In timber and pattern, we found features that make the outcome unique.”

In contrast to a typical hardware collection, The Streaks maintains a focus on timber while incorporating patinated bronze for further richness. “I remember going to the YSG office for the first time and seeing the timbers lined up in a case on the wall,” says Emily Bradley, co-founder of Bankston. “Yasmine took me through them and I couldn’t believe that they were all natural timbers – unstained yet showcasing purples, oranges and reds.” From a manufacturing perspective, the large-scale use of timber presented a challenge, prompting Bankston to re-evaluate the lever mechanism for a refined outcome. The emerging bands – streaks crafted from timber finishes, grains and bronze inlays – give the collection its name.The Streaks’ composition served as a gateway to further creative development. Adopting a playful approach to the word ‘band,’ YSG imagines the collection as a musical band consisting of hitmakers, headliners and supporting acts. “I love music and a lot of my work is inspired by my musical background,” says Ghoniem. “The relationship between pieces in a collection is vital to the final expression, so naturally I saw each handle as playing in harmony with the others in a band-like setting.” The wordplay also extends to personality traits, where ‘streak’ connotes the defining aspect of an individual. As a result, the collection’s striped, tilted timber design is called the Kooky Streaker.

“The Streaks reaffirms how we choose collaborators,” says Steve Bradley, co-founder of Bankston. “We look for studios we admire, but more importantly, studios that are going to challenge us to create something new and distinctive. That’s what we do as a brand, we shift perceptions and elevate hardware as a category in itself. Collaborating with YSG reminds us how powerful that approach can be.”

• 项目文案：Sara Jacob
• 项目摄影：Jonathan van der Knaap
• Video by：The Local Production
• Edited by：Cadre

• 转载自：The Local Project
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• 语言：英语
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