Zebra Striped chair of paper to save the Danish design

A knitted closet and a zebra striped chair of paper. They are two of the 12 experimental craft from the exhibition Mindcraft10 that are now participating in the world's most important furniture fair in Milan. The Danish Crafts behind Mindcraft10 and the organization works to raise awareness of Danish craft internationally. And what makes it better than at the fair in Milan, which expects 300,000 visitors in six days.

Works on Mindcraft10 focuses on the use of new materials in new and unexpected contexts. Therefore, the Danish Crafts challenged the 12 Danish craftsmen and designers.

They have done this by setting example ceramicist Steen Ipsen to create a chair of clay and textile designer Astrid Krogh to make clock in fluorescent lamps, "explains director of Danish Crafts Birgitte Jahn DR Culture.

- What is important about design today is to call into question the way we are used to treat things, says Birgitte Jahn.

When the exhibition is called "Would you mind?", The audience, according to Birgit Jahn asked to decide whether they would have something against using a knitted closet. Or sit in a seat of paper.

And for the artists sound the challenge that they are forced to go out of their familiar language.

Internationally known, most good old Danish furniture designers like Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen and Borge Mogensen. But today the light is virtually no Danish world stars up. In fact, it views man hard to spot just one.

Therefore it is important to show what the new generation.

- Today, the younger generation much more. One can put into perspective and problematize - much of it is community concern - and it is close to the art arena, "explains Birgit Jahn and continues:

- Danish crafts can renew Danish design. There is a need for anything other than Arne Jacobsen and Hans Wegner, says Danish Crafts Director.

It is the country's Culture Minister Per Stig Moller agrees i. Ministry therefore backs up about the exhibition in Milan, because Denmark may lose ground as benchmark design nation. A position as Arne Jacobsen and Borge Mogensen previously secured Denmark.

- We must ensure international awareness of our skilled craftsmen, designers and design firms, and we must make visible the qualities that Denmark has to offer as a design nation, Moller said in a statement.

Below are two examples of two of the 12 artworks exhibited in Milan.

 

 

Source (text, photo): DR.dk