The American Hardwood Export Council has collaborated with five teams from design collective OKAY Studio to produce an eclectic mix of innovative designs for Clerkenwell Design Week 2014.
Five
A collection by OKAY Studio made from five American hardwoods is now open at the SCIN Gallery in London for Clerkenwell Design Week.
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- 20 May 2014
- London
In February this year, the design teams were presented with the five timbers – American ash, cherry, hard maple, red oak and tulipwood wich account for over 50% of the resource in the vast temperate hardwood forests of the Eastern United States – and were asked to present a design inspired by these timbers and the number five.
Mathias Hahn, Liliana Ovalle, Ed Swan, Andrew Haythornthwaite and Peter Marigold (collaborating for this project), and partnership Hunting & Narud, each approached the project with their own unique style and the finished result is a diverse collection of fresh and invigorating pieces.
The exhibition design itself is the brainchild of Andrew Haythornthwaite and is open at The SCIN Gallery, the only materials gallery on Old Street. Kent-based maker, Adam Kershaw, has been integral to the project, offering guidance during the design process, and eventually making three of the five projects – Apex Tables, Shift Series and Claroscuro. The fabrication of Tulou and Runcible was outsourced.
from 20 to 22 May 2014
Five
The SCIN Gallery
27 Old Street, London