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.
Karawane
Pour les Alpes reinterprets the nearly forgotten, traditional straw-plaiting craft and presents the two pieces of furniture Khan and Rani in a contemporary context. Oriental in their appearance, but rooted in Switzerland, Khan and Rani awake curiosity in regards of their cultural background.
The design is inspired by the rich culture of the straw hat plaiting industry of the Freiamt in Aargau, Switzerland, which was, beside Florence and Luton, one of the most important trade centres of straw in Europe in the 19th century.
Khan and Rani catch one's attention with their organic shape. Developed in collaboration with the straw hat plaiter Kurt Wismer from Hägglingen AG, the two pieces of furniture combine wood with the carefully woven straw plaiting work. The graphical pattern is created by including single straws in contrasting colour.
The side table and the stool are made from solid maple wood, which originates from the forestry of Schloss Herdern in Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
100% Swiss Made
Pour les Alpes develops unique and unconventional design products. With a focus on high quality materials and perfection to the very detail, Pour les Alpes relies on cooperation with selected manufactories and craftsmen workshops in Switzerland.
Pour les Alpes commends therein a redefinition of Swissness: High quality products, with regional reference and dedicated for an international audience. The products of Pour les Alpes are collector’s items. With allusions to the cultural background of the products, they arouse curiosity and serve as topics of conversation.
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