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2019 / Innovation
Lectus Museum Bench
Lectus is a two-part installation which draws its concept from surrealism. A standard-design, timeless bench is placed in the middle of a room, as in a museum. Its shadow distorts its shape—here, the outlines of an apple appears to rest on the piece. Mounted onto the bench is a thin steel construction that holds up a pair of glasses which make a new world appear to the visitor looking through them. Where the room’s empty whiteness initially reigned, the glasses show, through a video, a glimpse into what might be someone’s subconscious; a surreal story only experienced through these glasses. What is real; what is it that we are watching? How and why does our brain, its perception, trick us?
- Designer
- Alexander Lervik
- Year
- 2019
- Producer
- Skaargarden
- Category
- Innovation
Lectus Museum Bench is a design innovation by the Swedish designer Alexander Lervik, dated 2019. The work is produced by Skaargarden, which manufactures and distributes it, while the design originates in Lervik’s studio. In the portfolio it is listed under innovation.
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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