Marcam Cabinet

Marcam Cabinet is built around a collision between two very different design languages.

The cabinet itself is uncompromisingly minimal: white, geometric and architectural. Beneath it, a colourful structure of heat-bent wood breaks free like a quick, improvised line drawing.

The contrast recalls architecture in which a heavy modernist volume is placed above something unexpectedly light and expressive.

The base has some of the temporary energy of graffiti, while the cabinet above carries the permanence and gravity of classical modernism.

Interestingly, the piece emerged almost by accident, from two separate design ideas that had been influencing Lervik at the same time.

In Marcam, those languages collide.

And the collision is what makes the object complete.

Marcam Cabinet 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.