DECORATIVE
by
Paul Day
80 DESIGN FILE
MONICA FÖRSTER
DESIGN FILE...
MONICA FÖRSTER
Wing (2009)
came first, the idea for the
“I don’t think
Hitchcock theme or the shape
Wing is about
itself? “I think that it was a paral-
lel process,” she explains, “I
the colour - it’s
had an idea about working with
about the idea
gravity, spacial movements and
I presented Nordic Light with an
- but if I needed
idea about creating a unexpected
contrast in the lobby by trying
to chose, I to talk to peoples feelings using
would take the
raw materials - and surprisingly
enough, they really liked the idea.
white” I think it was quite brave...”
It certainly was, but no more so
than Monica’s original concept.
Historically however, she has
never shied away from putting
her metaphoric neck on the
‘Ominous’ and ‘auspicious’ familiar with Hitchcock’s classic block. When someone has begun
should, logically, sit at opposite “The Birds” their career by cutting a swathe
ends of the spectrum but that’s Incorporating 1,500 black metal through the field of furniture
not the case with Monica Förster’s birds, telegraph poles and dra- design, one might expect that
recent installation at the Nordic matic illumination techniques, the their initial steps into the lighting
Light Hotel. A hotel with a very se- entire set-up is more than little field would be tentative. Monica
rious tradition of creative patron- unnerving. however is willing to wade in, all
age asks you to provide a flagship The basis for all this avian activity guns blazing. She even has an il-
installation to run concurrently is ‘Wing’ the luminaire shown in luminated toilet seat to her credit,
with the Stockholm Furniture Fair. the main picture. A friendly-look- albeit one conceived many years
All in all, an opportunity that any ing arrangement when it consists ago. When reminded of it, she
designer would jump at. of white shapes around a central trills happily, “Ha ha, that‘s still
So we have ‘Ominous’ a wildly bulb, this provides a stark contrast one of my favorite projects, not
imaginative and ambitious instal- to the sullen, predatory black yet put into production.... so let’s
lation but one that seems intent crows in Stockholm. wait and see”
on filling the casual visitor with ‘Wing’ is being sold by Zero, We will. It sounds illoominating.
dread. Particularly if the visitor is but we had to ask Monica which
www.zero.se
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