Look out for these young, uber-talented and highly original creatives: They are already putting their individual stamp on functional design.
Marlo Lyda’s star has risen quickly. Her first collection – the ‘Remnants’ series of low tables composed of offcut slabs of marble were a hit when launched at Melbourne Design Week last year.
“I’ve almost run out of supplies,” she says. “Even though this stuff is often considered waste, people can take a lot of convincing to allow something positive to be done with it.” She takes mismatched pieces – say, cut-offs from splashbacks or cabinetry – and creates metal scaffolding unique to each piece, then hand-ties the legs to the metalwork with copper wire.Lyda studied at the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland, in the Department of Man and Wellbeing. Her graduate work included seductively shimmery salad utensils made from copper harvested from electronic waste that she then ‘grew’ into new, organic shapes.
It’s also about creating radical new forms from a reduced material palette of cast aluminium – a paradoxically pliable, industrial material that, in Leigh May’s hands, take on a sculpted, unfinished allure. The exposed, scar-like weld is becoming something of a signature. “It’s considered ‘ugly’ by most people, but it’s really quite beautiful to me.”
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