Live from Milan: Julia Lohmann has been creating objects from seaweed this week at gallery Nilufar, as part of the Panta Rei exhibition.
Lohmann uses dried kelp from Japan and Ireland, which she soaks, stretches and varnishes and then uses to create lamp shades.
Here’s a bit of info from Lohmann:
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For Panta Rei, I will set up a kelp-workshop in which I will build objects from this marine plant.
The inspiration to use kelp as a material came through my residency in Sapporo, Japan. Kelp (Konbu in Japanese) is an essential ingredient in many Japanese dishes. It grows up to one metre per day and can be harvested sustainably.
Visitors will be able to follow the whole design process from raw material to finished products.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
April 20th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Wow!
Innovative and beautiful!
April 20th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I was there to see the creative process and the workshop… That was fantastic and fresh !! Beauty and poetry in a clever process. Hope everybody enjoyed it.
Congratulations.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
does kelp smell when it starts rotting?
April 20th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
One could do great gothic stuff with this!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
again julia lohmann endorses the stressfield between human being and nature.
chicks, let’s get out here and discover our lost feeling of our planet earth in the instant and place we are.
quality of living is what we feel & what we are.
reduction to the detail of nature disburdens us from the heavy spirit of our age.
great push towards light julia
April 24th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Beautiful objects made out of interesting material. Wonder why no company gives Julia Lohmann a budget to explore this material more to transform it into innovative and sustainable products?
Looking forward for your next work, Julia.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
This is actually more interesting than the ‘ghost chair’ in the previous post.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Shouldn’t she be using a highly toxic, embodied energy-intensive material based on petrochemicals? This does nothing to sate my consumer frenzy–something materially wasteful would.
Joking aside, yes, beautiful and interesting. Perhaps someday soon we’ll start talking less about being “green” and actually start being it.