BONE IDLE...Our Weekly Round Up of Creative Jaw Droppers we Discovered While Scrolling.
They say the best creativity comes from being idle - I’m not sure if scrolling on Instagram can be classed as being idle but good things can come from going off on a bit of a browsing tangent; mainly in the form of creative inspiration from others. Here is a run down of some of the eureka discoveries I had this week.
Laurids Gallée
Gallée creates varying pieces from translucent coffee tables in ice lolly colours to folklore entrenched and symbol laden storybooks of furniture from the recent ‘Fever Dreams’ Collection (and the pieces that are to blame for this entire blog post). My favourite has to be the Hand Lacquered Coffee Table, The Blabla Coffee Table in Western Red Cedar & Lebanese Cedar (below). Enchanting!
Laurids Gallée (1989) is an Austrian designer based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. From early childhood he was exposed to creative practices, after briefly studying anthropology, he graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015.
He spent the following years learning different manufacturing techniques, as a craftsman in art and design production. In 2017 he started his own studio in Rotterdam; his work explores traditional and folkloric elements to enter modern materiality, while always considering today’s advanced manufacturing processes to create a contemporary fusion.
Christian + Jade
Christian Hammer Juhl (DK) and Jade Chan (SG) are a design duo educated at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands and currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Proud to be humble Is a collection of reflective surfaces and material expressions for the contradiction within the Danish self image. Through hammer shaping and polishing a single sheet of aluminium, surface tension is created to reveal layers of distorted reflections. In the distortion of a mirror, one searches for what they want to see.
Christian + Jade were taught how to hammer aluminium by a retired aircraft builder in Detroit, and they’ve used this technique to shape the material into a variety of fluid forms including for the Proud To Be Humble collection, a range of mirrors with distorted reflections and Reflecting Flame wall sculptures that create niches for candles. “We love the softness and flexibility of the material and find it fascinating how with our hands, we can shape a flat sheet of aluminium into a three-dimensional functional object,” the duo said to Sight Unseen.
i am a big candle fan; the atmosphere and nature that one single candle brings always amazes me. reflecting these in mirrors is simplicity at it’s best. Favourite piece has to be the round mirror - it would instantly bring so much to a room - je ne sais quoi!
Charlotte Kingsnorth
Ay Carumba! I don’t know what I love more - the names of the chairs (e.g ‘odd sod’, ‘my big fat sofa’, ‘soho sucker’, ‘slashed’…), the ode to melty, squishy, fall-offy goodness or kingsnorth’s playful sense of humour genius and eye for textiles; the acid green silk velvet is mesmerizing and now KNOW for certain than i need some of that granny smith green heaven cloth in my life.
Charlotte Kingsnorth’s studio cuts through traditional craft techniques and hacks into industrial processes as a type of art form.
She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art’s Design Products programme and now runs her London based practice, working with clients, galleries and establishments including Bill Gates, Fendi, SHOWstudio, Christies, The Crafts Council, The V&A, Holon Design Museum in Israel, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, and shown in design fairs and galleries including Design Miami, Shanghai, London, Paris, New York and Milan.
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