These aluminum Norm Brackets are by Switzerland-based industrial designer Silvio Rebholz. The idea is to create furniture, while letting nature do most of the work. Parts of trees considered undesirable by the lumber industry are gainfully employed.

Norm Brackets allow the use of [unprocessed] wood branches. The hole matrix offers a variety of fixation options to accommodate wood irregularities.

Wood is a highly industrialized material today, almost like a non-organic substance. In the manufacturing process, a once-round trunk is sliced into rectangular boards, completely severed from its botanical origins to follow the logic of construction and transport.

On the flip side, in forestry, wood parts that don't align with this logic find no valuable use in today's industry. Branches from the tree canopy that are too slender or too contorted typically, at best, get shredded for chip board production or get burned for energy production. Yet, it is crucial to postpone the burning of wood and the subsequent release of carbon dioxide bound within it. There is untapped potential in valorizing wood from the crown of the tree.

For me standard angle brackets are a symbol of the wood industry's heavy industrialization. Their straightforward approach to creating stable, right-angled connections and beam structures with screws makes them a highly effective and simple choice.

The Norm Bracket series project aims to rethink the angle bracket, giving value those irregular, otherwise unusable branches. The wood only needs to be cut to length, and a matrix of holes provides ample fixing options with screws, ensuring the stable positioning of irregular branches. Depending on the shape of the branch, the screw can be placed at the optimal structural position.

To maximize the use of non-conforming branches, forked sections serve as the hooks of the coat rack.

He's also got a variant he produced on a trip to China, to make use of locally abundant bamboo:

Sadly there's no word on production plans.