I wrote a little bit about Oslo Design Fair earlier this week and during my visit yesterday I took some photos of the inspiring tendency exhibit curated by Kirsten Visdal and Per Olav Sølvberg. The stylists has interpreted four tendencies they believe in for the future; Poetic, New Luxury, Workshop and Futuristic. «The world still feels insecure and it makes us seek our roots. We want the earthy, the retro. Past can be found among different styles, from the ancient classic art via industrialism to the seventies with burned colors and ceramics». – Kirsten Visdal.
I especially found the living room inspiring. The style is what they call New Luxury, an new way of seeing Art Deco where soft fabrics, graphic elements and different kinds of metals is the base for the New Luxury trend. The room represents a person that surround herself with art, vintage treasures and handmade objects. The value of the objects is founded in the materials and in the history of the object. The stylists describes the style as a result of todays consumers high buying power. The result is personal interiors with a mix of styles and historical eras. The sofa (Fogia) used in the living room dressed with a beautiful velvet fabric looks super luxurious, mixed with art, a terrazzo table, also Fogia, and different patterns gives the room lots of personality. Also spotted, Bollo Chair designed by Andreas Engesvik for Fogia, floor lamp from Handvärk, Yuue floor lamp from Northern Lighting, Auro Mirror by Bjørn Van den Berg/New Works and fav magazine Cereal.
The kitchen is decorated in a poetic style focusing on the essential and the functional. Inspired by the old masters the stylists has interpreted the relation between light and shadow. The color palette is muted and earthy, raw ceramics and honest materials in an ascetic way. The kitchen used in the exhibition is from Danish Frama and also here I spot some beautiful lamps from Northern Lighting, floor mat from Heymat. Photographer Trine Hisdal has taken the portrait photo above.
The third tendency is called workshop and is a fusion between art, design and crafts. It represents a more raw expression than the other tendencies described with materials as stone, concrete and plaster against shiny surfaces and metals. It´s a creative room who shows a prosess. Artists represented are Ragnhild Wiik, Hilde Mæhlum, Sigve Knutson, Pettersen & Hein and more.
The last room was an interpretation of the futuristic trend. Technology, neon light, colder colors and surrealism points to the future. It´s also about rebellion, mirrors and illusions. The stylists has been working a lot with light and shadow in the exhibition. How the light shines through the windows and from doors between the different rooms. They´ve been inspired by how the old masters caught the light but also by the futuristic and the modern.
The exhibition is designed like a home and the stylists hope to inspire the visitors to see the connections between different styles, expressions and inspirations. They want to erase the lines between between the different styles and help people see how they can mix them together, that there are no rules and no need to choose one specific style but instead choose whatever you like and mix it into your personal style. The exhibition is very inspiring and if you haven´t been visiting yet I recommend you do.

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Elisabeth
Innlegget PAST – PRESENT, TENDENCIES AT ODF dukket først opp på ELISABETH HEIER.