5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for June 2023
..."Front: Design by Nature" at Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden For all that nature has long been an influence for Swedish collective Front, one expressed, for example, via their Horse Lamp for Moooi, the Resting Bear pouf/cushion for Vitra or the mushroom-esque lamp Curve for Zero, and for all that nature for just as long has been a tool for Swedish collective Front, one thinks, for example, of their wallpaper designed by letting rats chew it or the lampshade designed by the course a fly buzzing round a lightbulb, for the project Design by Nature Front a... A multi-year, multi-disciplinary, research project that has resulted in a furniture collection for Moroso and an exhibition that will premiere at Vandalorum this summer; an exhibition which quite aside from elucidating the research undertaken and where that research has taken Front as a collective, should also allow for differentiated appreciations of the relationships between humans and nature, and on the question what we can learn from nature, that designing with nature explicit in, for example, Mimesis...
