It's on the event of the last version of “3daysofdesign,” the good Danish celebration of design, that the German furnishings designer and craftsman Carsten in der Elst introduced his very first exhibition, “Smooth Works,” within the Tableau gallery in the heart of the Scandinavian capital. As its identify suggests, this set up is an ode to softness. To convey it to life, the younger Cologne-based artistic artist spent greater than two months researching gentle supplies. Analysis that he got here to place into follow on the planet of interior design via a show introduced in Copenhagen. The outcome? A primer of materials, each natural and artificial, momentary and permanent, and both recycled and intact. A jumble that questions our relationship to comfort, to the fidelity of materials, but in addition to contact. Within the design of his items, the normal stuffing process has been bypassed in favor of softness. Solely people who honor the malleable have been preserved. Among the most astonishing realizations, we should retain the mattress of rest “Aluskin” out of aluminum and foam, identical to this white chauffeuse, this espresso desk out of wooden fiber and latex, but in addition the very incongruous “Accession Chair” upholstered with tubes of latex. Some, which recommend the ephemeral, are filled with poetry, like these chairs and stools in cork, whose contours crumble, in addition to this wax lamp which seems to break down.
Lisa Agostini
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