Large shelf — Summer in the House

Designer:  sarah kueng & lovis caputo

Bio of the designer:

For over 17 years, Swiss designers Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo have been working together as the duo Kueng Caputo, developing shared ideas and visions and realizing works in their studio for design and architecture contexts. Since 2009, they have been represented by Salon 94 in New York, which regularly presents their work at international art and design fairs, including Frieze London and Design Miami/Basel. Since 2016, Kueng and Caputo have also collaborated with Etage Projects in Copenhagen, which presented their new Brick Collection at the CHART Art Fair in 2022.

Their work has been presented by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and exhibited internationally, including collaborations with Ago Projects in Mexico City and India Mahdavi’s project space in Paris in 2025, as well as at the Japanese design fair Design East. With their ideas, works, products, and educational formats, Kueng Caputo have built an international reputation and are accustomed to producing for a highly discerning audience. They draw on a local as well as global network to realize innovative and extraordinary projects. Their regular work in diverse contexts around the world has sharpened their sense for flexible, tailored solutions and further strengthened their capacity to improvise.

Kueng Caputo have held visiting professorships and led workshops at numerous universities, including Kyoto University of the Arts, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, EPFL Lausanne, and ABK Stuttgart. They also maintain long-term collaborations and dialogues with curators, artists, architects, and designers such as Rodman Primack, Adam Szymczyk, Teruhiro Yanagihara, Shirana Shabazi, Cindy Sherman, and many others.

title: Large shelf — Summer in the House

short description:

SUMMER IN THE HOUSE - UNIQUE PIECES BY KUENG CAPUTO

A series of outdoor furniture built on reused aluminum profiles, structures that carry their own history in the form of holes and marks left from previous use. The same board becomes a seat, a tabletop, or a shelf depending on its assembly, each one hand powder-coated by Kueng Caputo, an individual creation with its own custom-made pattern and color combination.

Summer in the House consists of a bench, table, and shelf, assembled from mountable aluminum profiles and completed with colourful boards available in various colours. The industrial and the handmade, side by side.

materials used: Steel & aluminum

measurements: H 85 cm, 209 × 33 cm

selling price: EUR 2100.00 

Image credits for all visuals if applicable: Paola Caputo