Old Stories in New Words30. Jan2013
ThecraftLAB is a team of young Romanian designers and architects who make “design with a story”, turning old objects into new ones, giving them a new twist and a new story. Irina Neacsu, the initiator of thecraftLAB is passionate about old things, especially chairs. Her most recent armchair collection named Foliage has reached the Milano Fair in 2012.
Foliage Collection talks about coming back to nature, the forest life filled with mystery and fantastic animals. Surprising colors and carefully handmade details are added to a beautiful combination of textiles, leather and handmade embroideries to suggest the hidden world of the forest.
The team has a very good flair for reinventing new things- below an old Thonet chair brought back to life as a booted chair.---
The Netherlands are the first chairs of thecraftLAB, created in 2010. They were made as an experiment and exposed at Bife- Bucharest Furniture Fair and later on they found a home in California, in a house full of children.---
Spring chair is a joyful armchair reinvented out of a 1980’s chair produced in Romania. Presently, Spring Chair has found a new house in New York.---
The anonymous chair before transformation into the Spring chair.---
Irina Neacsu calls herself a “story designer”. With a theoretical background in architecture and practice in design, she created thecraftLAB as a vehicle to express her creativity. The thecraftLAB works on interior design and textile design projects, having a joyful and colorful vision of design. She graduated University of Architecture Ion Mincu from Bucharest and a master in design at Rome University of Fine Arts. For more chair projects, you can visit ThecraftLAB
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