Saxum ArtglassLervik Design2026
2019 / Design / Sofas
Saltu Sofa
Within the art world, what is called an installation is something that appears within the bounds of the relevant room — often a space rectangular in shape and painted white. The work itself is everything encompassed by the room or the intended surface. This white cube has been the standard of art exhibits since the early days of modernism. Despite frequent challenges to its normativity, everything still happens within that room. In Saltu, an architectural, fictive room is created by a black steel construction. Using 50 meters of rope, the same edifice functions structurally to suspend the sofa and thereby the visitor. The visitor’s experience is reminiscent of being inside a spider web installation by Tomás Saraceno.
- Designer
- Alexander Lervik
- Year
- 2019
- Producer
- Adea
- Category
- Design, Sofas
Saltu Sofa is a sofa design by the Swedish designer Alexander Lervik, dated 2019. The work is produced by Adea, which manufactures and distributes it, while the design originates in Lervik’s studio. In the portfolio it is listed under sofas.
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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