Founded in Copenhagen in 2021, producing unique-state pieces: furniture, interiors and objects for life. Fused in the collaboration of Anne Werner and Kasper Lynge – with past lives in fashion, surface design, printmaking and contemporary art – Better Weather’s interdisciplinary practice navigates an abiding investigation of form and an urban social/cultural context that demands more from design than anonymity, passivity, and the nervous echoes of the modern. The studio is grounded in sustainability – reincarnating and barely taming our planetary debris – each piece is started with a desire to work with materials sourced from factory bi-products or industrial and urban waste.
Better Weather Design Studio works with waste materials that are commercially scalable. This means we work purely with materials that are to be discarded. We apply both post-consumption and post-production waste in our works.
Our focus has been on man-made materials, more specifically engineered wooden boards. This category of material has a low status and is placed at the bottom of the material hierarchy. In our practice, we seek to transform this waste of low-status material into design objects.
A material we have had in intensive care has been melamine-covered particle boards. A favorite material in the discount furniture industry. The iconic melamine board is known for its sterile white exterior that hides the inside of the composite engineered boards.
The boards are a reflection of our material world; besides wood, there are scraps of plastic, metal, textiles, and more...We have explored the melamine-covered particle boards in many fashions, but always with an interest in uncovering the interior of the boards.
