Products, Design, Art, Fashion and other things that we find cool, interesting, provocative and simply brilliant
This is Gry Fager, the designer of the Mormor series – and this is the story about how you make a grown up Japanese man (Hirai-San aka Mr. Scope) fall in love in one hour. We went to Gry’s new studio in Copenhagen. The purpose of our visit was to learn more about the concept and design process of the Mormor series.
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Are you a true design lover? – can you spot a classic from miles away? – do you know your Normann Copenhagen products? Today we would like to challenge you. Take a look at the siluet picture above. Can you name all five products?
If you haven’t reached the Zen Silhouette level, help is below.
We hope you by now know that we recently opened our very own webshop. Last week we ran out of the famous Grass vase in size medium. What did we do to solve the problem?
We teamed up with the visitors at the High Museum of Art in downtown Atlanta and forced everyone to make medium size Grass vases!!
Well, thats not quite true… we did run out of Grass medium size, but the people in the picture above is part of a fun event at the museum where the Danish designduo Claydies taught visitors how to make their own version of the Grass vase. Photo credit and more amazing pics by Mr. Kelvin Kuo.
The Normann Copenhagen Treasure hunt 2.0 is now over. If your twitter name is next to a product – you won.
Grass vase designed by Claydies. Twitter winner: @inceisler
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We have collected a few tips and tricks from the previous year. Things that will make you a bit better at…
We are happy to show you our latest design made by Clayides. You may have seen the Dahlia pattern before. It is simular pattern which you will find in a lot of flowers and traditional carpets.
With a background in traditional floor ornaments, Claydies has used geometry and reflections to interpret rugs in a new way. Using the motive of the Dahlia flower, hence the name of the rug.
True Feelings is all about leaving fingerprints and changing habits. The designer-duo Claydies have based the development of the series on an experiment with dogma rules. One of the rules was to work blindfolded. Focus was transferred from a visual approach to design to the sense of touch. The design became an expression of the fingers’ choice only. The result is a unique, sensitive and elegant design.
Claydies explain: “ True Feelings is designed by our fingers and our fingers only. Often the looks of our designs are thoroughly thought through. The idea of True Feelings is to do the opposite and let the hands take control – while being blindfolded. This allows us to loose the sense of proportion and our focus is transferred from our sight to the fingers. The result is an immediate design where the porcelain’s fine structure gives the design an elegant and romantic look”. Buy True Feelings now →
What would the world look like if you were a fly with a passion for design!!!
“We would like to change people’s fixed ideas about clay as a material. It is one of the world’s oldest materials and deserves to be modernised and re-evaluated,” say ceramists Karen Kjældgård-Larsen and Tine Broksø, who established Claydies in 2000.
Grass’ is developed in several phases. The handmade vase consists of three pieces, a bottom, one or several tubes, and grass blades that are hand shaped until the right form is obtained. For Claydies, the process itself is an important part of the development, so that the language of form and expression is identical to the idea.
The last process in the production of ‘Grass’ is the firing. The first firing is made at 950ºC for approximately ten hours. The vases are then glazed with a specially made glaze, which gives the grass-green colour. The last firing is made at 1270ºC and after 15 hours in the kiln, ‘Grass’ is ready.
Claydies was inspired by the mixing of different colour glazings. Here is a picture from the early prototype stages, where you can see the distinctive pattern.
Yo Clay – Go Clay..dies
