How Aesthetics Matter in Sustainable Design According to Skagerak
We chat with Skagerak + Note Design Studio on the term "grounding", measuring success, and creating products that transcend time + place.
At this year?s 3 Days of Design festival, Skagerak unveiled the Pelago outdoor collection, the most extensive collection it has ever launched. Designed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary studio Note Design Studio, Pelago is a series of elegant dining and lounge furniture designed to transcend time and place through its materiality. The restrained combination of solid teak, powder-coated aluminum, and Sling fabric allows the strong designs to speak for themselves when they are placed in different contexts, whether it be a summer house upstate, the patio deck of an office building or poolside at an urban hotel. It?s easy to see that Pelago is a perfect model of Skagerak?s design DNA. The collection?s use of teak wood pays homage to Skagerak?s Scandinavian roots while the streamlined expressions of each piece uphold the contemporary aesthetic that Skagerak is well known for. However, beyond this, Pelago also speaks to the company?s values in sustainability, innovation and responsible design. In today?s chat with Jesper Panduro (CEO, Skagerak), Camilla Vest (President, Skagerak), Ditte Buus Nielsen (Designer, Skagerak), Susanna Wåhlin (Founder, Note Design Studio), and Malin Engvall (Designer, Note Design Studio), we get to know another side of Skagerak that?s not widely shared:
On designing slowly, even when it?s ...
At this year?s 3 Days of Design festival, Skagerak unveiled the Pelago outdoor collection, the most extensive collection it has ever launched. Designed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary studio Note Design Studio, Pelago is a series of elegant dining and lounge furniture designed to transcend time and place through its materiality. The restrained combination of solid teak, powder-coated aluminum, and Sling fabric allows the strong designs to speak for themselves when they are placed in different contexts, whether it be a summer house upstate, the patio deck of an office building or poolside at an urban hotel. It?s easy to see that Pelago is a perfect model of Skagerak?s design DNA. The collection?s use of teak wood pays homage to Skagerak?s Scandinavian roots while the streamlined expressions of each piece uphold the contemporary aesthetic that Skagerak is well known for. However, beyond this, Pelago also speaks to the company?s values in sustainability, innovation and responsible design. In today?s chat with Jesper Panduro (CEO, Skagerak), Camilla Vest (President, Skagerak), Ditte Buus Nielsen (Designer, Skagerak), Susanna Wåhlin (Founder, Note Design Studio), and Malin Engvall (Designer, Note Design Studio), we get to know another side of Skagerak that?s not widely shared:
On designing slowly, even when it?s ...
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