The Collectors cupboards06. May2012
"For this furniture range, Folkform invited collectors to take part in the design process. Each piece is a one-off, made from a donated herbarium or insect from the collector’s collection. The donated specimens have been added to wet chipboard, so when pressed, a permanent organic decoration is embedded into the masonite hardboard." - Folkform
All cabinets have the same dimension: 1200 x 460 x 280 mm and were manufactured in one edition, which makes them unique creations.
Photos by Magnus Laupa
Sea Cupboard; contains six sea plants from Alfred Sandströms collection of real plants from the Baltic sea.---
Meadow Cupboard; contains 32 real butterflies from Adam Stechs collection.---
Forest Cupboard; contains six plants from Torbjorn Petersons collection of natural forest plants.--- Stockholm-based FOLKFORM is a design studio owned and run by industrial designers Chandra Ahlsell and Anna Holmquist. They work on their own independent collections as well as with clients.
“We’re interested in the hierarchies that we bestow on materials,” says Anna Holmquist, who co-founded the studio with Chandra Ahlsell in 2005 after meeting at Konstfack College of Art, Craft and Design in Stockholm.
Folkform won Future Design Days Award in 2006.
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