Biodegradable design made in Sweden
In Turkistan, some houses are 8,000 years old, and were built with clay and sand left to dry in the sun: namely, adobe. The designer Karin Auran Frankenstein recovers this material for her pieces on show at 20 designers at Biologiska.
During the latest edition of Stockholm Design Week, from 9th to 12th February, 20 young international design talents met up in a brand new location, the Biologiska museum, for a show which explores the dialectic between the static and the ephemeral.
Among these designers, the Swede Karin Auran Frankenstein was invited to bring her "House of Possibilities” clocks inside the museum's diorama, amid the stuffed mammals and birds.
The work of the young Swedish designer, class of 1982, focuses on the use of biodegradable low-cost and local materials such as paper, cow dung, sand, clay, potato flour, peat and chalk, applied in various pastes, to the ancient adobe construction technique.
The result is collections of chairs, shelving, lamps, clocks and other furniture products of undoubted functionality, yet also courageous in their totally natural composition, and hence with bold textures, sculpturesque shapes that recall the works of Gaudí, and even the aromas that do not allow you to forget their origin.
Photos via karinfrankenstein.se
During the latest edition of Stockholm Design Week, from 9th to 12th February, 20 young international design talents met up in a brand new location, the Biologiska museum, for a show which explores the dialectic between the static and the ephemeral.
Among these designers, the Swede Karin Auran Frankenstein was invited to bring her "House of Possibilities” clocks inside the museum's diorama, amid the stuffed mammals and birds.
The work of the young Swedish designer, class of 1982, focuses on the use of biodegradable low-cost and local materials such as paper, cow dung, sand, clay, potato flour, peat and chalk, applied in various pastes, to the ancient adobe construction technique.
The result is collections of chairs, shelving, lamps, clocks and other furniture products of undoubted functionality, yet also courageous in their totally natural composition, and hence with bold textures, sculpturesque shapes that recall the works of Gaudí, and even the aromas that do not allow you to forget their origin.
Photos via karinfrankenstein.se
23 Febraury 2011
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