Form&Seek London Design Fair2017
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.
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.
Winter Tide
Designer:
Material:
Lucy Norman, Dagny Rewera
Metal, Glass
Winter Tide is a series of lights inspired by the beauty, fragility and complexity of ice crystal formations. The collection captures the magical, recurring transformation of this natural phenomenon.
The glass lamps, hand blown in London,
use the light’s temperature fluctuations
to choreograph the change of state of the
ice-like substance enclosed in the glass.
Heat from the bulb causes the crystals to thaw and disappear, gradually revealing the ‘hot heart’ of the lamp. The light source then switches to a cool bulb, triggering the clear, melted liquid to start freezing once again.
Over time, crystals form and expand across the glass, generating an elaborate network of forms. Parallel to no snowflake in the world being alike, each formed pattern on the glass is uniquely structured, making the object unique during every cycle.