alvisilkchair
Environmental friendly seating furniture with silk thread tightened around a bearing oak frame. The transparent expression is in focus, which creates new forms and brings forth a perception of weightlessness, while the light produces new shadow plays from the thread works of the alvisilkchair.
Measurements:
height: 100 cm
width: 65 cm
length: 80 cm
Materials:
FSC oak: PA Savværk Korinth A/S, Södra Interiör AB
Environment-friendly silk thread: SidenThai
Ecological white wax: Beckers Acroma
alvisilkchar has a design expression, halfway between a lounge chair & a sculpture, where the threads create new forms in contrast to the rustic frame, where the bended parts
is made of 3mm layers of steambended oak.
"The inspirational sources for alvisilkchair was the threading and interlace techniques, that we were introduced to during the project “Det Textile Møbel” (”Textile Furniture”) at the Royal Danish Academy of Design and Architecture. Another source of inspiration is an installation “Lignium”, by artist Ann Hamilton, that I saw at the Wannås Sculpture Park in the south of Sweden. She had strung thin flaxen threads between the beams in a barn. It was striking how she, using very simple means, created new dimensions and spatial concepts. The harps delicate, yet powerful, expression fascinates me, as well as its construction with strings that are thin and yet strong.
I got the idea to use silkthread to the chair at a lecture and concert with the 3000-year old chinese string instrument Qin, with strings made of silkthread. The long-staple silk is the strongest natural fiber with long durability wich is proved by the fact that there are very old, well preserved Qin instruments still in existence today. Besides silk is a material that has a relatively low environmental impact. That is why I chose to use it for alvisilkchair."
Ann Hamilton, "Lignium” Wannås Sculpture Park