The table is set for 13 people. On the carved and painted wooden plate in the shape of a woman, 13 plates, triangular with curved edges and decorated with individual motifs of human figures and symbols, breasts and legs without torsos, are placed. The champagne glass-like ceramic goblets are to be drunk from, and […]
[…] for a deeper engagement with materials and more workshop hours. Today, materials are a complex and ever-changing concept. While earlier designers were used to relating strictly to wood, steel, glass, clay and textile, today, the range of materials has undergone explosive growth to include entirely new types that behave very differently and function across […]
[…] at Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim in 2017. The designer Kristine Bjaadal, who was featured in the exhibition, is representative of this approach, making both one-off vessels in wood and stone and designing glassware and rugs for serial production. Exemplifying the reciprocal movement, from craft towards design, is the ceramicist Sara Skotte, whose tableware for […]
[…] Hegelund, Else Borup Kallesøe, Anne Fabricius Møller, Liv Marie Rømer, Trine Tronhjem and Janne Wendt — present work created specifically for this exhibition, displayed on oversized, Japanese-inspired wooden easels. Each of the eight printers is introduced with their own presentation — printed on fabric, naturally. Form and content, you know. And it’s elegantly executed […]
[…] recognise that a movement is happening. Over the past 25 years, art has seen an increased interest in crafts and the work of the hand. It's about wood, textiles, ceramics and glass, which are gaining more space in contemporary art,’ says Maria Lind and points to a possible reason for this development. ‘I think […]
[…] bold moves. Take furniture, for example: Here's a good example Maria Bruun's Nordic Pioneer chair. It points towards something else, it has the Nordic element in the wood, but in its minimalism it also has postmodernist elements. Akiko Kuwahata's bench for Mindcraft in 2024 is also an interesting example and Dögg Guðmundsdóttir has a […]
[…] visualise your way out of and cultural references that you can't use,’ says Sia Hurtigkarl. Currently, she is interested in basket weaving, which has a strong tradition in Japan. She is interested in the craft because objects are designed using textile techniques. She would like to experience this: The hands weaving with wood fibres.
‘I began to envision works in new materials – wood, metal, silicone.’ Marie Herwald Hermann. The international outlook has always been palpable to Marie. The culture in England and the United States presents her with possibilities and dialogues between aesthetic disciplines and the open potential of the artistic environment that shapes her artistic manifesto. […]
[…] the brittle glass, placed in different corners of the exhibition space, emphasises the fragility of the material. And this fragility can also be found in the relief-inspired works that stand freely in the space in frames made of pine wood and angle brackets. Both artists invite us to reflect on how control and chaos coexist.
[…] any case, there seems to be an opposition and a contradiction between plastic and nature. We have a very long tradition of fine furniture architecture based on wood. Plastic also became part of furniture design with the whole Eames-Panton tradition, but just as industrial mass production: moulded. Similar in appearance. And in a way, […]
