COUR presents:
Collectible 2025
Otto Zapf x Giseok Kim brings together two designers – one modern, one contemporary – whose minimal, technical and sculptural designs effortlessly embody the essence of the different eras in which they were created. Nowhere is this more apparent than in two of their most iconic objects, Zapf’s Softline series and Giseok’s Aluminum Shelf series. Although both Zapf and Giseok emerged from a specific time and place, allowing themselves to be influenced by the zeitgeist – for Zapf, the rounded modularity of space- age comfort, for Giseok, the rising popularity of modern Korean design – putting them in a room together allows us to crystallise what makes each of them unique: clever engineering, functionality, modularity, customisability, material simplicity and an uncompromising aesthetic vision.
Both contribute to a unique stream of design history, one
that blends functionality with timeless appeal.
