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The streets of Berlin are a tireless giving supply of all kinds of materials. My studio floor turned into a hard-to-navigate recycle bin, slowly filling up with good-to-have's, like card board, foam, wood and of course the heavy canvas, a surplus from Sandqvist’s bag productions.
The challenge I faced was how to give the aesthetics of ‘trash’ a new image, lifting it beyond the stamp of ‘recycled’.
Early in the process I involved the artist Adam Raymont to add a hand drawn wood grain pattern to the heavy canvas. In a surrealist manner I then developed soft seating elements out of the woody looking fabric.
The wooden frames of the easy chairs are made out of oak and beech cut offs from kitchen counters, which otherwise would have ended up as firewood.
Re-organized pieces of foam and springs from used mattresses are used for the upholstery.
The structural volume of the boards for the coffee table and podium is made out of collected card boards, all more or less cut into the same shape and then held together by plywood boards, another left over from art production through Adam’s studio. Simple fittings collected from carpet samples are strong enough to hold the boards together. The colorful treatment with pigmented linseed oil stands in contrast to the rugged edges of the paper and is the visual binder in the collection.