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.
HERMETIC DIALOGUES
Designer:
Material:
Marina Stanimirovic
Metal, Ceramic
For “HERMETIC DIALOGUES”, Marina Stanimirovic initiates conversations between contrasting materials, volumes and shapes. Her interest located not in the isolated, individual entities as such, but in their relationships and interactions.
“Jewels are for me movable objects that evolve and engage with the body”. This obsession for adaptability led her researches to focus on finding new alternatives of hinges and links beyond the jewellery uses. Mostly inspired by architectures and mechanical objects, it is naturally that she starts exploring industrial materials such as rubber tubing and window seals. These new elements gave to her design the malleability and flexibility that she was looking for. Present in our everyday, it became also a tangible way to incorporate a sense of reality into the precious, questioning the notions of value and preciousness.
Toying with her heterogeneous materials, Marina experiments with methods to bond these antithetic elements. Fascinated by the importance of the link; the connection becomes a space to explore the balance between relationships, safety, isolation and detachment. Do these links highlight connections or distances? Is here a sense resiliency or a gloomy disregard? Of void or absence?
HERMETIC DIALOGUES is the materialisation of Marina Stanimirovic’s search to understand this space where the immutable meets the volatile.