German-Finnish Designer Pia Wüstenburg Is Seeking Solitude for a Life and Work with Contrast
In our latest designer profile, we talk to North German-based designer Pia Wüstenberg.
In the latest of our monthly series profiling designers based in the UK and Europe, our editor at large Katie Treggiden talks to North German-based designer Pia Wüstenberg.
Pia Wüstenberg was born in Germany to a Finnish mother and German father, studied in the UK and has lived and worked in Finland and Germany as an adult. Today, her rural studio in North Germany enables her to draw on all those cultural influences to create nuanced work that is suggestive of all three.
“I grew up in Germany, but my Mum was in love with her home country, and still is today, so we were frequently packed up and carted off to Finland” she says. “My childhood was strongly influenced by a feeling of ‘Heimweh’ [a German word for ‘unaccountable homesickness’] – regardless of where I was, I missed the other home. I grew up acutely aware of the differences between my two cultures – the language, the food, home culture, nature – even the light, which is so different in Scandinavia.”
Pia grew up in a creative environment, taught by her grandmother to knit, crochet and sew, working with a carpenter to build furniture for her bedroom, and building raised flower beds in the garden by the age of ten. But with materials too precious to waste, Pia was the sole experimenter in her family.
“I definitely freestyle, which was...
In the latest of our monthly series profiling designers based in the UK and Europe, our editor at large Katie Treggiden talks to North German-based designer Pia Wüstenberg.
Pia Wüstenberg was born in Germany to a Finnish mother and German father, studied in the UK and has lived and worked in Finland and Germany as an adult. Today, her rural studio in North Germany enables her to draw on all those cultural influences to create nuanced work that is suggestive of all three.
“I grew up in Germany, but my Mum was in love with her home country, and still is today, so we were frequently packed up and carted off to Finland” she says. “My childhood was strongly influenced by a feeling of ‘Heimweh’ [a German word for ‘unaccountable homesickness’] – regardless of where I was, I missed the other home. I grew up acutely aware of the differences between my two cultures – the language, the food, home culture, nature – even the light, which is so different in Scandinavia.”
Pia grew up in a creative environment, taught by her grandmother to knit, crochet and sew, working with a carpenter to build furniture for her bedroom, and building raised flower beds in the garden by the age of ten. But with materials too precious to waste, Pia was the sole experimenter in her family.
“I definitely freestyle, which was...
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