Re-createAn exhibition of objects created from Solid Floor timbers by local designers.
Solid Floor has been supplying and installing bespoke timber flooring for over twenty-five years. Acclaimed in equal measure for the variety and distinctiveness of its floors, Solid Floor is frequently specified by many of the UK’s leading architects and designers.
For SDT23, Solid Floor has gathered a selection of designers from diverse fields and crafts and given them a unique task. The assignment, handed to this talented crew, was to design and create novel objects utilising discarded bits – leftovers and offcuts from installations – of Solid Floor’s luxurious timber flooring. While generally considered waste on the one hand, this material has inherent beauty, not to mention many uses, on the other.
The exhibition’s objective is to make use of waste flooring material that would otherwise be thrown away, via new-designed objects that not only showcase the beauty of the different timber floors with their various textures and colours but also reveal the ingenuity of the designers themselves.
It is Solid Floor’s desire, through the exhibition, to forge long-term relationships with a community of designers who can use this waste flooring on a regular basis as a medium for their art.
Event Details: https://www.shoreditchdesigntriangle.com/events/re-create/
Dates: 16 -24 September
Address: Solid Floor East Showroom, 7a Ezra Street, E2 7RH
Participants:
Studio Sahil
Corrie Williamson
One Little Girl and A Can of Gasoline
Mason & Painter
Ella Doran
Blake Carlson-Joshua
Christoph Kurtzmann
Makers Department
Burniture
XOXO COASTERS
The coasters carry a patter of an espresso pod packaging sleeve in two designs: upright and diagonal. This is to remind people that single use packaging, offcut wood and even the dust from the machining can be useful in design details. As coasters meant to protect surfaces, it can be also served as a game tool (tic-tac-toe) and start a conversation using the pattern on these items. All coasters are CNC machined in a local workshop, hand treated by the designer and the dust from the machining was used for the glue process of the side tables.