'Particle' by UK designer Bethan Laura Wood is a range of furniture designed during her residency at the Design museum in london. influenced by the museum's location at butlers wharf overlooking the river thames, wood investigated the historical usage of the building and the site. she discovered that it had been a banana warehouse when the port of london was the main site for importing and exporting all manner of goods to the UK from around the world.
In response, she has developed a furniture system based on the visual aesthetic of crates and packaging materials. this range of interlocking and stacking units has been designed to fit in with the museum's café area, the different combinations of units allowing for flexibility of space. wood's aim with 'particle' is to celebrate the intrinsic qualities of lowly, industrial materials, encouraging the user to look at the quality of these materials in a new light.
She has re-appropriated the wood laminates to create a new pattern inspired by particleboard, a material that is often considered low quality and mundane, transforming it into an original surface pattern. her aim is to encourage the user to reconsider the beauty of materials often consigned to temporary or low-cost construction solutions. the pattern has been developed to facilitate the use of various sized off-cuts and samples. the laminate is laser-cut into shapes and interwoven, much like a patchwork.
More contemporary furniture and design at http://www.kevinhallsworth.co.uk/ the website of Kevin Hallsworth designer and maker of contemporary bespoke furniture and creator of the Industryindesign collection.
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