Form&Seek London Design Fair2017​
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Form&Seek will be part of Dutch Pavilion at London Design Fair on 21-24 September 2017
Form&Seek exhibitions always show a consideration to new crafts, material and processes.
With this upcoming show Form&Seek explores the theme of "Openness" where we focus on what designers with a vision of across borders and cultures, make and design in order to shift attitudes and cultures for the a more inclusive future. Form&Seek explores the idea of Dutch design, not through a national lens but as an attitude and way of thinking.
​​For the first time ever Form&Seek launches its own collection during London Design Festival as well as a producing and selling platform, enabling consumers and retailers to purchase original and innovative crafted goods from a curated collection founded and run by designers.
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The Form&Seek collection focuses on new developed processes and contemporary, globally local craft techniques. Interesting, innovative materials and processes play a key role in the pieces by Form&Seek. Each item tells a story through the way it has been made or the impact it has on our daily lives.
Our new collection expands on a wide range of crafted products from conventional products prototyped with new technologies to products that play with natural formations and uses of material. Each thought provoking, poetic design object has a strong character and personality with the personal mark of the maker.
Karen Lee
Karen Lee is a designer of objects and materials and is based in Detroit, MI. Karen holds a BFA in Textiles Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has worked at NIKE Inc. as a Materials Designer working in Sportswear, Performance Basketball, and Field Sports categories.
Her current work attempts to find new communal systems that oscillate between our human understanding of them and that of the objects’ experience of inhabiting those structures. Some of these structural design experiments explore the ‘in-betweenness’ of objects in terms of their value as both functional furniture and as objects that can possess their own agency.
Karen has been featured on Dezeen, Sight Unseen, and Artsy. She has exhibited work in Design Week Portland, Design Month Detroit with Form & Seek, and International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City and has work in the permanent collection of the Cranbrook Museum of Art. She currently teaches the Color & Materials Design graduate program at College for Creative Studies.
