DYSMORPHIA - Furniture design and interior textile innovation from a distorted mind.

Abstract

The project aims to investigate furniture making as an art form, to awaken emotions and tell a tale of the mind behind the object rather than the end user. The process will give an opportunity to research sheet metal and steel rod in furniture construction as well as woven textiles (as part of minor in Textiles: Material and Structure) in the making of new fabrics for interior architecture with focus on both aesthetics and design narration.

Through the use of metal and textile, the project strives to explore three dimensional shapes and storytelling by volumes, perspectives and the relationship between hard and soft materials. The silhouettes of the project are an invitation to step inside the sometimes distorted mind of a creator.

The result does not necessarily aspire to production value, marketability or to cater to large target groups, nor does it have a specific future producer in mind. Instead, the project is targeted towards visual communication through objects set in an exhibition context. The textile collection produced in the process will however take more of the challenges in industry production of materials made from textile fibers for the interior architecture industry of the future into account.

Dysmorphia will consist of a small furniture collection of seating furniture with a correlating textile collection used in combination with the metal pieces to strengthen the identity of the silhouettes and to enable researching within the art of textile making.