Bowl of fruit.
Viewed from a certain angle, the upper part of the Galax dish seems to be floating,
as if for an instant making fun of earthly gravity.
Material: Stainless steel & lacquered steel
Dimensions: D.34 H.2,5cm
Finish: Stainless steel & red, green, white & black color
‘3D Table’ is based on a minimal and easy-to-use production. Indeed, each piece is produced from only 3 identical elements.
Rolling bookshelves
Patatras is a new kind of books storage.
It presents itself the rolling shelf made of expanded polypropylene and available in a range of bright colors. The shelf could be interpret as a wheel of knowledge or a round library. It consists of many single cells for one book each. With Patatras you should be selective about the books. It will become an awesome addition to any modern interior.
Material: expanded polypropylene
Dimensions: D.122 cm w.29 cm
Free standing mirror.
Material: Curved plywood
Dimensions: H.187 w.32-60 d.30 cm
LCD 'Liege Centre Design', 2010 < >+
Design by AUXAU & BIHAIN
Structural Engineering Consultant: Greisch
team: Pierre-François Gerard, Matthieu Busana, Pierre Paeps
Status:
Competition 2010
Client:
SPI+, Liege
Site:
Guillemins, Liege
The « x » table is made out of a single sheet of steel and laser cut to make both, the table and the foot in its most archetypical forms. .. read more
DUB’EYE, tall emblem structure [Dubaï, UAE], 2009 < > +
The elevated structure is seeing, as both emblematic and sculptural, due to its unexpected shape.
Reduced to a strict minimum at ground-level, it unfolds generously to offer its main façade to the sky and stars.
.. read more
Project Award for Irdeto .. read more
The ‘Illusion’ table results from a research on different geometrical readings alongside the use of standard processes used in furniture creation. .. read more
The ‘V’ table is composed of an ash wood top lacquered in white or black, or of a glass tablet... read more
A reception desk defined as a living functional sculpture... read more
Design : Callewaert & Bihain
This project offers a re-organisation of the traditional ‘3 rooms-in-a row flat’ to improve the usage of available space... read more
WAW, 2008 > enter waw space
WAW is the result of a reflection based on furniture being energy, where the absence of material may free us from all physical constraints: a move towards the “no-furniture”... read more
It is composed of a steel profile lacquered in white, black, orange or silver.
WAW may be used either inside or outside.
The coffee table 'Iris', made from a single sheet of steel, comes in white or black lacquered steel.
'Iris' can be piled up and is suitable for indoor and outdoor use.
Material: lacquered steel
Dimensions: H.34 D.91 cm
Libri, 2008 < > +
Edited by Swedese
Photography : Mikael Strinnhed
Libri received the '+1 Award' at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, "Best New Product Design 2008".
Libri is a storage solution suitable for our nomadic lifestyle. .. read more
Tom-G' is a flat wall 'shelf'... read more

Be clear, 2006 +
Be clear' is a flat wall storage element closed at the front. It consists of a single sheet of steel, and enables documents to be stored without taking up any floor-space.
Finish/material: Stainless steel
Moya, 2004 +
Moya, is a building set made up of simple, light and identical units. It enables us to better adapt our interiors, to awake our creative directions and to follow our wandering need.
Finish/material: 3,5 meters of white cornice tubing, dia. 8 cm
Ingo 1er, 2001
An ingenious freestanding shelf system which, which can fit in every room in your home. Designed to compliment our nomadic life style, the Shelf Ingo1er is formed simply as 4 wooden bars and 16 square plywood panels... read more
Finish/material: Birch
The chair Mosquito is the result of a thought about the furniture humanism and autonomy. .. read more
Material: white and black painted in gloss multiplex or finishing with whitened oak.
Paradise chair, 2006 +
Paradise chair, is made from 247 vertical elements
Finish: White, red, blue, green, yellow
Under its solid design representing the archetype of a tradition armchair,... read more
Material: EVA
Under its solid design representing the archetype of a tradition armchair,... read more
Material: EVA
When the above are combined, one enjoy a seat within a wooden cocoon. .. read more
Finish/material: Lacquered multiply
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Lounge chair Relax, 2004 < > +
Designed as a low table with an undulating surface in the middle and a deliberate cushion. .. read more
Finish: Wenge
The fragrance chair is designed in reference of a woman's body & shoes... read more
Finish/material: Wenge
'a step forwards the 'no furniture'
Before being perceived as an element of furniture, this design tends to fascinate by its underlying complexity translated in a simple strong form. "Ondine" strikes the viewer as being somewhat organic: alive, supple and inherently mysterious".. read more
Wallonie Design's office (project), 2008 < > +
This project offers a re-organisation of the traditional ‘3 rooms-in-a row flat’ to improve the usage of available space.
The central room reunites the ‘utility’ functions [entrance- moving around space-kitchen-dressing room] that are set around a new volume. The new shape contains the kitchen to which it offers additional storage space... read more
New reception area & conference rooms
In collaboration with J. De Four architects

OFFICE, 1996 +
Lonely external office
Endless space element
Fabrimetal
Office
Oyon's endless extensions allow us to turn our walls into screens on which our fruit and vegetables play the role of pixels.
Finish/material: black, white & transparent polycarbonate
Oyon 1er, 2004 +
Oyon's endless extensions allow us to turn our walls into screens on which our fruit and vegetables play the role of pixels.
Material: 2 metres of white cornice pieces of tubing
Cocofruit teaches us how to play with the various weights and shapes of the fruit. You will be delighted to put them into it time and time again.
Finish: Wenge, beech and birch curved plywood
Be eve' by way of picture on the wall we have a luxury fruit-holder: Be eve allows us to create our own composition, and the apples remind us the biblical Eve
Finish/material: Steel polished
Fruikir, 2004 +
Mural storage for everything
Material: Resin
be light, 2006 +
Be light' with the archetypal profile of lamp with shade, be light is hollow and becomes a luxurious box and new skin for your old lamp. be light also operates autonomously. Finish/material: Steel polished
Be light' is the beauty of archetypal profile of lamp in simply one sheet of plexiglass. Finish/material: black, white & transparent plexiglass
Comming soon
CDC, 2006 +
CDC...is an overhead CD holder... read more
Mimie, 2006 +
MIMIE...The no mess car tray for people on the move. The tray consists of an inner folding steel frame covered with a layer of neoprene. Opened or Folded up.
Project for Impex - Dynamo industrial price - Designed in Brussels
Flip-it, 2005 +
Flip it, is a storage for 20 Cd to stick on all support and in all the directions. .. read more
Finish/material: EP 4500 black, red, gray, yellow, green
Project for Posso - Designed in Brussels

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Biography:
Having trained as a butcher and as a carpenter, Michaël Bihain studied interior design at the St Luc Institute in Liège and at the University of Hull in England.
He is currently working with companies and distribution firms on developing furniture, jewels and accessories.
He has set up the BIHAINprod studio in London which deals exclusively with the conception of unique creations for private customers.
Michaël Bihain also produces some of his products such as ‘OYON’, the first mural fruit basket.
He currently teaches furniture conception at the St Luc Institute. His works are regularly exposed at exhibitions in Paris, London, Milan and some of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Seoul’s Design Museum.
He has been nominated for the ‘Award Design Report’ in Milan 2007, won the ‘Help for creation and innovation’ prize and has been chosen to design the furniture of the British Council in Paris.
In Michaël Bihain’s world, you can see dancing shelves (Let’s Dance), fruits becoming an integral part of our walls (Oyon), a chair on which you wouldn’t dare sit (Paradise Chair) or even a chair (Mosquito) so alive that you could have a conversation with.
Michael’s conceptions represent the convergence point between the new ways of life and the collective memory. They are the fulfilment of his desire to design respectable furniture for free individuals. A characteristic element of his research is the obviousness of the lines obtained.






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