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2019 / Design
Ars Sella Sculpture
“I was reared in my mother’s atelier and saw those objects everyday. Of course that affected me.” Lena Lervik is a classically trained sculptor, educated in the best schools in Sweden and Europe. She works with materials like bronze and terracotta, and Lervik spent large parts of his childhood in her lively studio. Here, he has returned to this important site to make this monumental, iconic bronze chair. Its texture is created by the artist taking an axe to the gypsum sketch. The result has echoes of Giacometti’s sparse bronze shapes, combined with all those sculptors who through the ages have worked in this timeless material. It also reminds us of the genius construction and simplicity of the design of the basic chair.
- Designer
- Alexander Lervik
- Year
- 2019
- Producer
- Lervik Design
- Category
- Design
Ars Sella Sculpture is a design by the Swedish designer Alexander Lervik, dated 2019. The work was developed and realised by Lervik’s own studio.
Alexander Lervik is a Swedish designer whose work spans furniture, lighting, product design and collectible design. His practice combines function, storytelling, technology and conceptual experimentation, moving between industrial production, limited-edition objects and design art. He trained at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and runs his studio in Österlen in the south of Sweden.
The project belongs to a body of work that is represented in museum collections including Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo and the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, and that has been covered by international design and news media. Related works can be found through the furniture, lighting and collectible design pages and in the complete portfolio.
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