Handmade 2017: the sketchbook
Wallpaper* Handmade is packed with strokes of genius. A design happens in the act of sketching and modelling, a thinking out loud, a reverse engineering. For Handmade, built on new and sometimes unlikely creative partnerships, these workings-out carry an extra charge. Here is a selection of Handmade 2017’s most revealing prep and plotting...
‘Sacred Space’ pavilion
Francesco Librizzi and De Castelli
Painted stainless steel arches over a sacred space for housing precious objects, defining the space it hovers over as hallowed (hollowed-out) ground.
Tabernacle
Giacomo Moor and Emmemobili
The Tabernacle is the ornate cabinet in which the Eucharist is stored in Christian churches. ‘Tabernacle comes from the Latin word taberna, meaning abode,’ Giacomo Moor explains. Rendered in Emmemobili’s intricate woodwork techniques, the L-shaped doors open to reveal a clever, totemic storage solution.
Candleholder
Michaelis Boyd and The Crucible Foundry
Rough and smooth edges finish off this tactile candle holder and match-stick dispenser, as the banal moment of lighting a match is transformed into a divine experience.
Trinity of boxes
Jacqueline Rabun and Werkstätte Carl Auböck
This trio of large egg-shaped boxes in solid cast brass nestles together in perfect harmony.
‘Time Capsule’ clutch
Cutler and Gross and Doshi Levien
British eyewear brand Cutler and Gross is famed for its handcrafted products. Similarly, this clutch case was crafted to hold precious items; a gift to be passed down between generations, transcending trends.
‘Causeway’ candleholder
Martin Brudnizki and Pemberton & Sons
Their shape echoing the basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, these five candleholders are each made of a different material to reflect a stage in the production process of a cast metal design.
Sustainable sarcophagus
Tom Dixon and Paper Factor
Combining the afterlife aesthetic of Ancient Egypt with an innovative paper-based material gives a new lease of life to the classic coffin.
Meditation table
Studiopepe and Agape
A marble and brass offering with calm-inducing accessories creates a domestic contemplation space.
‘The Portal’
Snøhetta, Erik Jørgensen Møbelfabrik and Everything Elevated
From a trio of Scandinavian outfits, this ‘ever-ending’ ladder, rendered in black-stained solid oak, arrives at a porthole to the infinite.