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Mexico & the Nordics:
Through the Lens of Four Elements of Contemporary Design
Adorno is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition entitled “Mexico & the Nordics: A Meditation on Individuality in Craft, Tradition, & Modernism”, opening 23 January 2020 at Klosterstræde 20. It has been organised in collaboration with the Mexican Embassy in Copenhagen and juxtaposes the distinct identities of these two geographically distant cultural…
Jonas Edvard: A Material Alchemist in Sustainable Design
“I encourage people to be curious, to focus on the moment, to react upon feelings; right now is an interesting moment” – Jonas Edvard View Jonas Edvard’s works for sale On your way to Jonas Edvard’s studio located on a former shipbuilding segment of Copenhagen’s old industrial center, Nordhavn, you’ll pass through a maze of…
Socially Responsible Design:
10 Designers Who Approach Social Experience through Aesthetics
“It’s beautiful and interesting, but quite useless – that’s the point. It’s a reference to the precarious and perilous life of the creative worker.” – Stine Linnemann The realm of art and design has long been a space in which social commentary has been prevalent. It has allowed artists to creatively navigate social and political…
Fine Craft & Fine Art:
10 Makers Working at the Intersection of Disciplines
“Many of these objects seem to have come into being with a clear purpose… But they are also at the same time simply themselves, artworks in their own right” – Åsa Jungnelius The intersection of fine art and craft has a long-standing and contentious history. Craft has historically been understood as “women’s work”, including textile…
Seray Asker:
Designing goddesses, beasts & other modern myths
“The thought that I was breathing the same wind as our ancestors did a million years ago … carrying their culture to the 2000s in a modernized way.” – Seray Asker Images of the works courtesy of the artist. Studio photos, credit: Rhctangles. View Seray Asker’s works, including pieces from the Goddess & Beasts…
Future Heritage:
Forward Thinking Design Inspired by our Cultural Past
“I would see so many beautiful things, but often find them antiquated and not functional in the modern world.” – Feyza Köksal, Turkey Dach & Zephir: “Éritaj Kontré”. All images courtesy of the artists. Antique porcelain and enamel dining ware embellished in exotic flora and fauna, perhaps even a few people dressed in lavish garb,…
An Investigation into Our Objects’ Life Cycles:
Sustainability in Material and Process Innovation
“In a world where everything goes so fast, the general public loses the notion of how these objects arrived to their hands.” – Josefina Muñoz, Switzerland The word sustainability has become the hottest adjective in marketing today, but this can mean so many things, how are sure are we that a certain sustainably marketed object…
Reflections of Nature Across Global Design Cultures
“Our society’s current relation towards nature is an endless source for reflection.” – Studio Plastique, Belgium Perhaps in our obsession with creating a world of objects made by us for us, we’ve left behind a crucial part of ourselves, a world that was not made by us but yet still for us in its own…
The Hidden Hand: Crafted Turkish Design
Dial Gokalp: “Neo” Jar No:1 Existing in a unique geographic zone that has historically been an interface between many cultures since prehistory, Turkey is one of the few areas of the world where the traditional and the modern continue to mix in contemporary culture to produce unique results. Turkey is at once home to…
Gaspard Graulich at Crossovers:
Exploring Design’s Cultural Landscapes
“I don’t want to express my feelings; I want my objects to make people feel their own” – Gaspard Graulich “Prélèvement” N.8 & N.1. All images courtesy of the artist. View Gaspard Graulich’s works, Prélèvement, in the French Collection for Crossovers. Many of the writings and conversations here on Adorno Editorial are centered around…
Studio Plastique at Crossovers:
Searching for Answers within the Plastic Arts
“As a society, we are not only disconnecting from our natural environment, we are also alienated from what we consume” – Studio Plastique View Studio Plastique’s Out of the Woods series presented in the Belgian Collection at Crossovers. The Plastic Arts is a term that originally defined any physical manipulation made by humans to shape…
Belgium at Crossovers 2019:
Honest and down to earth, literally and figuratively.
” It’s their poetic silence and subtle tactility, which makes them beautiful, and gives them a global appeal.” – Elien Haentjens Curator of the Belgian Collection Since leaving Mother nature’s carefully and lovingly designed home for us, humanity has been longing to construct a world shaped through materials of our own creation, for our own…