Chunky misshapen stools and a lampshade made from wooden shavings characteristic on this hand-carved timber furniture assortment by designer Didi Ng Wing Yin, which is on show at Helsinki Design Week.
The furnishings kinds a part of Habitare, the annual furnishings honest held throughout Helsinki Design Week.
Hong Kong-born designer and maker Ng crafted his amorphous items nearly fully out of wooden as his “approach of working a bit in opposition to conventional industrial design”.
“That is why not one of the shapes are the identical,” Ng instructed Dezeen at Habitare.
One in every of these designs is a neutral-toned wooden veneer lampshade made from delicate shavings sliced with a Japanese hand aircraft. The shavings had been then cross-laminated collectively to strengthen them.
You wish to contact wooden – everytime you see the feel, you wish to really feel it,” continued the designer, who mentioned that tactility is on the core of his private design course of.
One other piece is a geometrical slab of untreated timber, which was mounted on metal legs to create a low-slung bench and sprayed with a scorching pink hue of Indian ink. Ng additionally colored a lumpy fir wooden stool with iridescent inexperienced ink.
“The concept is not to make wooden not seem like wooden, however it’s to ensure that it would not look bizarre,” he defined.
Primarily based in Helsinki, the designer mentioned that he primarily makes use of domestically out there softwood to create his furnishings, equivalent to spruce and pine.
“I like that it would not use fancy hardwoods like oak or mahogany,” he mentioned. [The softwoods] are extra form of all the way down to earth, I feel.”
Three seemingly an identical chunky black stools additionally characteristic within the assortment, all with subtly totally different textural designs.
Organically formed, intricately pleated vases had been positioned atop an angular wooden chip plinth whereas Ng additionally created monolithic sculptures carved from single items of sunshine wooden.
Ng just lately turned his focus to designing furnishings after working as an inside designer in Hong Kong, after which he studied for a grasp’s diploma in inside structure at Helsinki’s Aalto University.
As town’s design week continues in Finland’s capital, check out initiatives showcased at earlier editions of the occasion, together with textile filling created from plants and essential furniture particularly designed for folks affected by pure disasters and the continuing refugee disaster.
The pictures is by Didi NG Wing Yin.
Helsinki Design Week takes place from 8 to 17 September 2023 in Helsinki, Finland. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date listing of structure and design occasions going down world wide.
