Archive for October, 2003
Paustian ‘derfor’
Exhibition by Danish Crafts and curator Louise Campbell. 2003
Includes Hyggelys candles, Culture Shrink and The Bench is yours III.
Culture Shrink
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2003.
The material is polyolefin that shrinks when heated. The most common use of the material is for electrical insulation. Insulation is an important element of lighting that is most often disregarded and hidden.
The polyolefin comes as a tube and it is not readily available in very large diameters. For the lampshades we cut the tubes of polyoefin to create sheets, these were then sewn together to create a large tube near to the size and shape of the frame.
The Bench Is Yours III
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2003.
The organisers of Glentavej Plads felt the ‘Bench is yours’ concept fitted their park project and commissioned the starting block to be placed in the park. The local residents built the bench further.
Built at Glentavejplads, Nørrebro, Copenhagen
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The bench is yours II
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2002.
Starting with an archetypal chair form, waste and found wood is added on to the bench following the archetype of a basic chair, needing legs, seat and back. Any one can add to the bench with the waste wood. It is a democratic project that cannot be designed in advance. We create the base, there after it is up to the people that use the park to continue where the last person stopped.
Bench is yours – Video
The Bench is yours II filmed at Fabbrikken by CYF, 2002.
A Culture Corporation project by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. A starting block is laid and people use waste wood to add to the bench where the last person left off.
