Craft and design are fields with ongoing developments in new methods and products, collaborations with designers and craftspeople as well as implementing traditional techniques to contemporary forms and materials.
This year’s Danish Crafts Collection, an annual curated selection of Danish designers and makers, premieres at Maison & Objet Paris with five carefully chosen craftspeople and designers – two furniture makers, a ceramist and two textile artists who all share an interest in sustainable solutions.
All five designers and craftspeople of the new collection also look for new directions in craft and smart consumption. The new collection consists of designers and artists Laura Barüel, Martine Myrup, Anne Tophøj, Jonas Edvard Nielsen and Amanda Betz.
Barüel and Betz both work with natural shapes – Barüel, in forms of oversized plants and flowers expressed textile in Wood, a series of bedlinens, wallcoverings and a dressing gown. Betz’s Column collection is a series of folded cylindrical brass lamps that play with organic forms and patterns. Ceramist Tophøj brings the hallmarks of crafts into a semi-industrial set-up in her Geoplex Collection ceramics series. Nielsen’s Gesso Project tables features a tabletop made from natural composite gesso over a sophisticated, minimalist frame. Martine Myrup upcycles used textiles and reinterprets ceramic vessels in textile materials as part of Speckled collection.
The new Danish Crafts Collection was presented by the Danish Art Foundation at Maison & Objet in Paris from 4–8 September 2015.