A collection of rugs and wall decorations in collaboration with Kasthall, whose production is in Kinna in Sweden. The idea came from using six different hand tufted techniques in wool an linnen. All developed by designer Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg during her years as creative leader at Kasthall.the designer Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg, developed during her years as creative leader at Kasthall. The result is a large-scale camouflage pattern with variations in height and structure inspired by the shifts and shapes of nature.
“The challenge was to continue Gunilla’s amazing work, to bring them together with their own expression, while allowing the individual techniques to retain their own character. Everyone has got their own colour scheme, based on Kasthall’s colour palette in yarn and linen, which, to some extent, was a limitation, but also an important reason for the rug to be produced. And combining yarns, colours and making samples together with specialists and weavers with such profound knowledge of the subject was a privilege.”
It began with memories of the deciduous forest of childhood in September and continues in the transitions that nature provides in the present.
September was specially designed for the Understory exhibition at Designgalleriet in Stockholm 6-23 February 2018
January
A dark and gloomy month, but the sea provides a varying amount of color tones and shapes that change every day. Awe-inspiring, powerful and life-giving. The blue tones have a large spectrum, an instant and then it changes.
March
Inspired by the barren meadow that spreads out near the sandy beach. Shades of brown, beige and yellow gold, just before the greenery emerges.
July
I see the clouds pass by. The pink colors take a surreal hold over the sky before the sun goes down. Soft layers of air, an indication of what is to come tomorrow.
September
When the colour scheme changes from clear green to more cool notes, and the wind and shadows remind us that the heat still remains. From a place where forest and meadow meet.
If you are interested, please contact Louise Hederström
Photographer Ava Hanning @ 1-8
