Stapel – A familiar stacking toy reimagined to keep doors open.
Stapel turns the everyday doorstop into a small, playful ritual. Drawing on the familiar form of a stacking-ring toy, its coloured beech wood rings can be taken apart and used as individual wedges in different sizes. With no front, back or required alignment, each ring works intuitively from every side. Painted with an old school watercolour set, the object carries a personal and almost nostalgic surface. Once stacked again, it becomes a colourful tower – somewhere between tool, toy and memory.
Designers Robert Hahn and Jacobo Cuesta Wolf curated an exhibition of eclectic doorstops for Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design festival.
The Stop/Go exhibition displayed more than 20 objects at the Goethe-Institut Denmark, created by young and independent German creatives in response to a brief calling for novel reinterpretations of the humble doorstop.
water coloured beech wood
prototype
available for market
analog photography: Max Méndez
set design: Amelie Schleifenheimer