The manufacturing world is evolving rapidly towards the predominance of mechanized processes that threaten the survival of traditional crafts skills. With this premise, the designer began to develop the project for aluminum containers/boxes seemingly produced on an industrial scale but in fact the result of the work of the small community of Habo in southern Sweden not far from Stockholm. Cloche Tables also found a place in the Milan gallery; in painted metal and cork they play with changes in scale, materials and function.
Monica Förster / Spazio Rossana Orlandi
The designer presents Babushka Box, a series that hybrids the concept of traditional Russian dolls with Swedish craftsmanship.
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- Loredana Mascheroni
- 25 April 2012
- Milan