The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

The only awkward part of possessing a HHobject case is that people stop you in the street and ask you where they can get one. You could never get another that was identical because each HHObject case is unique and for at least the last twenty years no more have been created.

Mine is now a little scuffed up, but is still as strikingly slim as ever. Very striking when considering they are made from timber. My case was created before laptops, ultra books and tablets. To accommodate this new technology I could perhaps add a little internal padding. Twenty years ago I could have had the interior fitted out in padded leather into which I would have slotted a couple of my little film cameras, but I wanted it to carry documents. A client could request a particular interior for a case and this would be taken into consideration in the design, but the exterior shell, handles hinges and embellishments were always the unique design and construction of HHobject.

HHobject cases were made from exotic recycled timbers . Pieces of timber that on the surface could look quite unprepossessing, damaged, even pest infested with a filthy appearance, might reveal something wonderfully usable, when put to the saw or thicknesser.

Every evidence of the timbers former state and history was erased. The timber presented itself as a clean slate where the peculiarities of the newly revealed colour and grain were carefully considered before being used. The timbers used in the often wafer thin side panels were selected for their resilience and strength. Each case was hand finished and coated with lacquer and varnish.

The metal elements of each case – hasps, catches, handles, hinges were hand made from raw metal, usually copper and brass, but also silver. Even the ingenious interlocking metal elements that go to make up catch mechanisms were designed and hand cut by HHobject.

These cases have aged well in every sense and it is hoped that in the near future HHobject will be back in business with old and new designs. A small selection of the original twenty year old designs are illustrated here.

Copyright © 2018 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

On the Kaipara, New Zealand. The Gibbs Sculpture Farm.

The only requirement of each commission is that it be the biggest work by that artist.

It was with some surprise that from a distance I spotted earth works beginning on what was a very steep and unstable slope. In fact part of the site was a combination of new and old landslip faces. It transpires this is the site for a house designed to take advantage of the dramatic sea and estuary views both sides of a ridge high above Mangawhai  Heads in the Northland Province of the North Island, one and a half hours drive north of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland.

To sit securely on this unstable earth three tiers of steel reinforced concrete columns have been poured on site, and connected from bottom to top, forming concrete piers. This ground work has taken several months to complete and fortuitously was mostly complete before the once in fifty year summer drought was over and heavy rains arrived.

Now at the end of winter the structure of the house is complete, the roof is on and cladding the walls has begun. But from a distance it is still a little difficult to know just what face this very expensive build, in this gated subdivision, will present when complete, to those with binoculars or telescope looking. But what is not in doubt is how property owner, engineer and architect have imposed their will on a precarious nature.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

It was with some surprise that from a distance I spotted earth works beginning on what was a very steep and unstable slope. In fact part of the site was a combination of new and old landslip faces. It transpires this is the site for a house designed to take advantage of the dramatic sea and estuary views both sides of a ridge high above Mangawhai  Heads in the Northland Province of the North Island, one and a half hours drive north of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland.

To sit securely on this unstable earth three tiers of steel reinforced concrete columns have been poured on site, and connected from bottom to top, forming concrete piers. This ground work has taken several months to complete and fortuitously was mostly complete before the once in fifty year summer drought was over and heavy rains arrived.

Now at the end of winter the structure of the house is complete, the roof is on and cladding the walls has begun. But from a distance it is still a little difficult to know just what face this very expensive build, in this gated subdivision, will present when complete, to those with binoculars or telescope looking. But what is not in doubt is how property owner, engineer and architect have imposed their will on a precarious nature.

Copyright © 2018 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

It was with some surprise that from a distance I spotted earth works beginning on what was a very steep and unstable slope. In fact part of the site was a combination of new and old landslip faces. It transpires this is the site for a house designed to take advantage of the dramatic sea and estuary views both sides of a ridge high above Mangawhai  Heads in the Northland Province of the North Island, one and a half hours drive north of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland.

To sit securely on this unstable earth three tiers of steel reinforced concrete columns have been poured on site, and connected from bottom to top, forming concrete piers. This ground work has taken several months to complete and fortuitously was mostly complete before the once in fifty year summer drought was over and heavy rains arrived.

Now at the end of winter the structure of the house is complete, the roof is on and cladding the walls has begun. But from a distance it is still a little difficult to know just what face this very expensive build, in this gated subdivision, will present when complete, to those with binoculars or telescope looking. But what is not in doubt is how property owner, engineer and architect have imposed their will on a precarious nature.

Copyright © 2013 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

It was with some surprise that from a distance I spotted earth works beginning on what was a very steep and unstable slope. In fact part of the site was a combination of new and old landslip faces. It transpires this is the site for a house designed to take advantage of the dramatic sea and estuary views both sides of a ridge high above Mangawhai  Heads in the Northland Province of the North Island, one and a half hours drive north of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland.

To sit securely on this unstable earth three tiers of steel reinforced concrete columns have been poured on site, and connected from bottom to top, forming concrete piers. This ground work has taken several months to complete and fortuitously was mostly complete before the once in fifty year summer drought was over and heavy rains arrived.

Now at the end of winter the structure of the house is complete, the roof is on and cladding the walls has begun. But from a distance it is still a little difficult to know just what face this very expensive build, in this gated subdivision, will present when complete, to those with binoculars or telescope looking. But what is not in doubt is how property owner, engineer and architect have imposed their will on a precarious nature.

Copyright © 2018 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.

It was with some surprise that from a distance I spotted earth works beginning on what was a very steep and unstable slope. In fact part of the site was a combination of new and old landslip faces. It transpires this is the site for a house designed to take advantage of the dramatic sea and estuary views both sides of a ridge high above Mangawhai  Heads in the Northland Province of the North Island, one and a half hours drive north of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland.

To sit securely on this unstable earth three tiers of steel reinforced concrete columns have been poured on site, and connected from bottom to top, forming concrete piers. This ground work has taken several months to complete and fortuitously was mostly complete before the once in fifty year summer drought was over and heavy rains arrived.

Now at the end of winter the structure of the house is complete, the roof is on and cladding the walls has begun. But from a distance it is still a little difficult to know just what face this very expensive build, in this gated subdivision, will present when complete, to those with binoculars or telescope looking. But what is not in doubt is how property owner, engineer and architect have imposed their will on a precarious nature.

Copyright © 2018 BENOTEN. All rights reserved.