Landscapes Within

Polish designer Wiktoria Szawiel worked with casting, rattan weaving and wickerwork to create a collection of objects as a materialised essence of an eastern landscape.

Landscapes Within
The starting point of Wiktoria Szawiel’s project Landscapes Within is her fascination with landscapes.
Memories of places she grew up bring her to wonder what is the meaning and importance of a landscape for an individual and humanity in general. This led her into a research about connection between landscapes and memory, cultural meaning of landscapes and functions it has for a society.
Landscapes Within
Wiktoria Szawiel, Landscapes Within
Szawiel was raised between Polish, Belarussian and Russian cultures. What they have in common, is nature: the unique, melancholic eastern landscape. In her project she aimed to capture the beauty and the spirituality of an eastern landscape within a physical object.

Working with casting, rattan weaving and wickerwork she develop precise proportions of different components for the resins, a kind of design recipes to be able to create the objects.

Every object is made using a different recipe. Each one required a different way of creating a mould – sometimes the mould was an object itself: to make the chair Szawiel used an existing structure of a wicker chair reinforced with resin and therefore cutted and sanded. Without that the structure would just fall apart.

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