Video: Karin Frankenstein's House of Opportunities: Individual Furniture Made of Clay, Sand and Cow Cakes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Thousands of years ago, people built houses from environmentally friendly materials, and their interior decoration was impeccable from the point of view of fighters for the cleanliness of the environment. Longing for the childhood of mankind, as we all probably feel nostalgic for our own childhood, Karin Frankenstein decided to sculpt individual furniture for the modern “cave of the city king”. But is everything so simple and "primitive" in her works?
We have already written about craftsmen who create products in the style of "horns and hooves" and forged art furniture. Biodegradable furnishings might not have appeared if Karin Frankenstein hadn't asked a simple question: How did people cope without leatherette and plastic before?
That's how. Before building the house, clay was mixed with sand, formed into small blocks and dried in the sun. It turned out to be an unbaked brick. You could add straw to it "to taste" - cheap and cheerful. When Karin Frankenstein discovered this material, which is very easy to work with, she decided to create a series of customized furniture from biodegradable components.
A 29-year-old Swedish craftswoman who lives in Stockholm began to work with starch, peat, chalk and even cow cakes, which she adds in varying proportions to a mixture of clay and sand known from time immemorial. The House of Possibilities project was invited to the Stockholm Design Week, where Karin Frankenstein's personalized furniture delighted the Greens (I wonder how they feel about the supposedly eco-friendly lamp being plugged into a power outlet after all electricity?).
Admirers of the works of Salvador Dali and Antoni Gaudi did not disregard these works. In the artist's collection, Spanish influence is visible to the naked eye. A watch on thin legs suggests that the Swede is not by hearsay familiar with the painting of the great surrealist Dali.
Chairs of Karin Frankenstein, devoid of straight lines, possessing special plasticity, resemble the facades of the buildings of another genius Spaniard - Antonio Gaudi.
Therefore, the project "House of Opportunities" is a fusion in which "primitive" biomaterials and allusions to the work of geniuses of the twentieth century have been combined and perfectly coexist.
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