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SPIRIT OF CRAFT_bold+poetical brings together diverse influences in a bold and poetic manner. Craft skills combine with a modern aesthetic, a clear personal touch and durability. The boundaries between rediscovery and reinvention are blurred. Expressive compositions with strong contrasts and products with a one-off character come together in unexpected ways. New approaches to design challenge prevailing ideas about beauty and value. We appreciate the precious and preserve the important. Striking shapes, bold combinations and a sophisticated colour palette create a living environment of artistic radiance. A celebration of difference.
1 KERMAN, FARAH, TORE, e15, photo Ingmar Kurth 2 Norigae floor stand by WKND Lab, photo OA studio 3 SHIFT project by Form Us With Love for Samsung Nordics, www.formuswithlove.se 4 Semiton by García Cumini, 2023 Arper 5 Stained Glass Floor Light 129 by Maarten De Ceulaer, photo Adriaan Hauwaert 6 “Mr LOVESEAT” by Patricia Urquiola, 2023, Moroso 7 Drei Gefässe by dorothee wenz 8 Lyra by Anna Sykora, photo Tanja_Fügener 9 LOEWE Chairs Collection, Salone del Mobile 2023, photo A.P. 10 SHIFT project by Form Us With Love for Samsung Nordics, www.formuswithlove.se 11 Esquisses collection by Faye Toogood, Maison Matisse, photo ©Genevieve Lutkin 12 Doodle 202241 by Maya Leroy, photo Amir Farzad 13 Becher LaRobe by Anna Sykora, photo Tanja_Fügener 14 Stool by Lola Montes, Nilufar, photo Filippo Pincolini 15 obiwa by Yanobi, Maruyoshi Kosaka, photo Mariko Taya 16 MANGIAFUOCO – Coffee tables and centerpiece trays by Zanellato/Bortotto, 2023, Moroso
Colours
A free artistic spirit also flows through the colourful palette of SPIRIT OF CRAFT. Colour and motif designs appear both intuitive and masterfully bold. Charismatic colours support the artistic objects, handcrafted products and flamboyant room designs. Sophisticated colours play a special role in this interior theme, which presents extravagant, artistic and pictorial colour designs.
Nine colours with eight micro-colour themes enable exciting compositions with strong contrasts. The warm component features honey-yellow amber, copper-brown brandy and an intense chilli. The neutral shades include light, bright and dark greys as well as sepia, which, depending on interpretation, may remind us of wood but can also convey vintage appeal. In the cool component, decorative lapis lazuli, deep glass green as well as dark turquoise can be found.
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Materials
In SPIRIT OF CRAFT, different aesthetic concepts are combined to create expressive new compositions. This includes not only the materials but also the structures and patterns. Diverse craft skills and almost forgotten materials and techniques give rise to objects with a quite unique style – for example, the combination of copper and hot enamel where the glass-like powder coating lends the material a striking look with amazing colours and unpredictable shades. Vintage pieces and motifs from manufacturers’ archives are also rediscovered and artfully transformed into new designs.
Ceramic is a key material with unimagined design possibilities. It is clear from the products themselves that their designers are also artists, e.g. sculptors or painters. Three-dimensional colour and intentional contrasts between clarity of form and extravagant coloured glazes are characteristic of an idiosyncratic yet indulgent approach to traditional craft skills. The results are unmistakable objects that are appreciated and treated as an art form in their own right.
1 Detail: Norigae floor stand by WKND Lab, photo OA studio 2 obiwa by Yanobi, Maruyoshi Kosaka, photo Mariko Taya 3 Detail: Stained Glass Series 115 by Maarten De Ceulaer, photo Jeroen Verrecht 4 Detail: Stool by Lola Montes, Nilufar, photo Filippo Pincolini 5 Detail: MANGIAFUOCO – Coffee tables and centerpiece trays by Zanellato/Bortotto, 2023, Moroso 6 Detail: DOBLECARA 3 Rug by Ronan Bouroullec, nanimarquina, photo Albert Font for nanimarquina 7 SHIFT project by Form Us With Love for Samsung Nordics, www.formuswithlove.se 8 Detail Ton-Gefäß by dorothee wenz 9 Psychodelic Serving Plate „Castro Sette“, Studio Riviera 10 Detail: Tray by Lola Montes, Nilufar, Photo Filippo Pincolini
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The artistic and unconventional use of materials, colours and textures is also reflected in home textiles and dining. Tableware and glassware appear as genuine one-off pieces. Hand-painted motifs and hand-worked textures emphasise their unique character. Picturesque colours and unusual shapes enter into a sensual dialogue on the dining table. Textiles and rugs are reminiscent of objets d’art with elaborate handicraft techniques, self-confident patterns and wide-area appliqués making the products appear like large-format graphics, collages and reliefs.
In uncertain times, products and interior design ideas with a flexible character are increasingly appreciated. In addition to the type of use, designers are now also thinking about future material options as well as various possibilities for positioning in our living spaces. Here they convey their own new ideas of value and beauty: What is valuable is what is durable without being static because it adapts constantly to our changing living conditions in new and unconventional ways.
