Klon Klon is a minimal furniture collection created by Japan-based designer Siin Siin for Licht Gallery. The tables emerge from 4mm-thick aluminum sheets, laser-cut with precise circular perforations that serve dual purposes—they lighten the material’s visual weight while creating strategic connection points between flat and curved components. Through these openings, welding transforms from mere technique to visible design language. The welding marks, typically banished from consumer products, here become essential compositional elements that document the object’s coming-into-being.

This approach recalls the Japanese concept of kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold-infused lacquer to highlight rather than hide the repair. But Siin Siin’s approach is more radical—it celebrates not damage or repair but the fundamental processes of creation themselves. “Manufacturing becomes less visible as production advances,” notes the designer. “Klon Klon focuses on these vanishing processes, treating manufacturing as an essential design element.”

The project’s genesis within Japan Benex’s EETAL initiative provides crucial context. This company specializes in precision sheet metal processing, handling everything from laser cutting to bending, welding, and baked coatings in-house. By revealing rather than concealing these industrial processes, Siin Siin creates a bridge between contemporary design and its industrial foundations, offering a counterpoint to our culture’s growing distance from how things are made.

In this way, Klon Klon serves as both object and document—a side table that tells its own story through material evidence. It stands in thoughtful opposition to the slick perfection of much contemporary furniture, where production methods are concealed beneath flawless surfaces. Instead, Siin Siin offers transparency, allowing us to read the object’s creation through visual clues intentionally left intact.