CURATOR’S COLUMN


Charlotte Lancelot partnered with


Gandia Blasco’s GAN division on a new collection of rugs using cross-stitch patterns, an age-old traditional craft, which produced something completely new and exciting.


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Frédérique Morrel’s unique products are made with vintage tapestries. Using neglected and discarded tapestries she illustrates her work exploring modern vanities, the loss of Paradise and rebirth in a better world.


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Sebastian Herkner works with people in rural areas to mould their traditionally crafted items to designer status, ready for a global market.


(1) In Zimbabwe Herkner worked with the Tonga women, combining two traditional crafts in one product, connecting clay and natural fibres, pottery and basket-making.


(2) Tonga baskets are made of natural fibres and have a typical black and white design. Searching for alternative colours and materials, he found rice and corn bags of synthetic fibres in bright colours that could be incorporated to produce simple, authentic objects and enter a new market in Europe.


Carpenter Kaspar Faber started making pencils in his hometown of Stein,


near Nuremberg, Germany, in 1761. Eight generations later, the Faber- Castell pencil is still handcrafted, but the design’s been updated and has achieved cult status.


Metamorphosis is a way of infusing something old and familiar with a new aesthetic – and perhaps a new function. By repeatedly heating and reshaping traditional crystal vases inherited from grandparents, designer Jakub Berdych


remoulded them to satisfy the needs of contemporary consumers.


(3) In Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast, chairs from tubular steel and plastic string are typical of this region of Columbia. Children are taught the traditional plastic weaving technique momposino at school. Updating the styles by changing the shape, powder- coating the steel and using recycled plastic string has opened a whole new global market.


(4) The inhabitants of the small town of Nobsa subsist off handwoven woollen rugs. Herkner designed new shapes for them. Colourful, modern and inspired by tradition, the rugs have an elongated central section, creating the effect of two rugs lying one above the other.


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