Styles
22 April 2022
Design is entering a new era. The desire to escape and singularity evolves towards strange and fantastic aesthetics. Creators, designers, 3D artists start to revisit forms, colors, materials and techniques with a lot of derision, sometimes even absurdity. The result? The pieces of furniture and decoration are transformed into particular creatures, as if stolen from an experimental laboratory or coming from another world. Hybrid curiosities, with organic forms, fascinating colors and often endearing features that transform the house into a museum of the strange. Visit.
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Mood
Bizarroid
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Legendary creature
Bigfoot
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Film
Monsters, Inc.
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Mascot
Flubber
Bacteria turn into furniture
From a few temples, shelves, tables and chairs seem to transform into strange and whimsical creatures. The furniture takes on an organic appearance and suggests the invasive forms of microbes or mutant bacteria. In this contagious movement, we find Greem Jeong’s tentacular creations in silicone foam, OrtaMiklos’ biscorn works in polystyrene or Gert Wessels’ dripping pieces in acrylic.
The revival of childhood materials
In addition to the unusual materials, the materials of our childhood also yield to this creative deviance. Modelling clay and papier-mâché are reinvented by a generation of artists who are completely offbeat. Among them? Diego Faivre and his stools with absurd lines covered with « Diego Dough », an ecological paste made from potato starch. Or Sarah Murphy who anchors herself in this bizarre aesthetic revival through papier-mâché lights all grained.
The wet effects of ceramics
Ceramists also compose whimsical creations from elsewhere. Artists Sean Gerstley and Nebnikro fashion ceramic lamps, tables, and vases with a shiny, lumpy glaze that gives them a wet look, as if they had emerged from the bowels of the sea. Their membranous anatomy adds a monstrous dimension to these mysterious beings.
The glass forms and deforms
The glass forms and deforms itself to compose unique pieces. With the Swedish artist Hanna Hansdotter, the Korean Minjae Kim or the Danish Helle Mardahl, glass is dripping, slimy, bulbous, viscous. The lines look elastic and remind us of the Flubber, a science-fiction character capable of metamorphosing and stretching to infinity. Alien creations that let the work of the hand and the technique of blowing speak with singularity.
3D printing shapes unexplored lines
If aesthetics are entering a new era, material libraries are also being renewed, disrupted by technology. New design players see 3D printing as a new way to express their creativity with greater impact and technical possibilities. The Supertoys studio Supertoys builds five-legged fruit cups printed with sand; an approach also applied by the transdisciplinary duo Wang & Söderström who create vases and small decorative objects with unexplored shapes…
