Brikolör at Salone Satellite in Milan 2009
by Cosmina Dinu
I won’t make a secret out of it – the most exciting part at Salone Internationale del Mobile in Milan is Salone Satellite – the place where upcoming designers exhibit. At least for me. So, no wonder I’ll start writing about the young designers met there just one week ago. Of course I will pay my tribute to the big and important producers, those making design available for the world and so on! But, later…
I’ll begin randomly – due to the amounts of flyers, business cards and press CDs collected. The first to send the press link were Brikolör. So, let’s take a look.
Brikolör makes a risky bet and propose a 300 years of durability guaranteed furniture. Here is their motivation:
“There is no concept outside the product itself. The question is rather: can there be such a thing as quality within? Is there a sort of soul of a product or furniture in itself? If so, how is that created? Is it when the many years experienced craftsman or designer builds something that truly matters to him or her? Can you feel any of that by looking at a particular piece of furniture? By touching its texture? Do we even need to experience that feeling in order to build a lasting relationship with the product?
Brikolör has the ambition to manufacture furniture with a guaranteed emotional and technical durability of 300 years. Milan 2009 marks the start of our ambition.
Brikolör will save the world.”
Pretty enthousiastic, huh? Well, I still wear the broch my grate-mother gave it to me. And it looks like my niece will wear it too. So, hardy but not impossible, isn’t it?
Let’s take a look at the “saviours”:
Hägg
Storage/cabinet in ash veneer. Plinth, iron-weighted. Pattern by Rasmus Hägg.
Pärlan
A chair made from turned solid ash. Laminated wood-sides. Varnished.
Alta-Alta
A stool with legs of solid ash
Lodlärk and Våglärk
Storage/cabinets in solid larch. Part-varnished/part untreated.
Brikolör are Victor, Mathias, Fredrik and Sami.
Victor Alm (b. 1975) is a trained carpenter and MFA from HDK, School of design and Crafts, Gotebörg University with additional education at Pratt University, New York,USA and at Rietvald Akademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mathias Eriksson (b. 1981) is a project manager and partner of Sinnes advertising agency in Gotebörg, Sweden with education from from Nordiska School of journalism and Gotebörg University
Fredrik Hansson (b. 1981) is a carpenter and a partner as well as an architect of Okidoki Arkitekter. He is educated at Chalmers University of Technology, Gotebörg.
Sami Kallio (b. 1975) is a carpenter and a MFA from HDK, Gotebörg University. He is also educated at UIAH Helsinki, Finland. Sami was awarded the first price at Caiazza Memorial Challenge 2006 for his chair Stich.
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