Greece - Side Tables

Working intuitively with hands-on techniques and a wide range of materials, young Norwegian designer Sigve Knutson creates objects that question contemporary mass-produced design. After presenting the critically acclaimed solo project Drawn to Production with Carwan Gallery during Milan Design Week in 2017, Knutson presents a new solo show at the gallery with works created in the past five years — including new objects inspired by the local context of Piraeus and created specially for the exhibition. Entitled Assembly, the exhibition explores the freehand, improvisatory approach that is part of Knutson’s practice, which is often driven by the pure joy of putting things together without planning or designing anything in advance. Each object he creates is unique and results from a process led by experimentation and an intuitive use of tools, to create archetypal forms that, in the designer’s own words, display different “gradients of functionality”. Abstract wood columns thus coexist in his work with playfully stacked shelves...

Contemporary, handcrafted side table, model "Anisetus" with a polygonal marble surface set on a tripod base in oxidized brass. The piece of furniture is inspired by ancient Greek tripod...

Contemporary, handcrafted coffee table model "Cynthus" with a freeform curved triangular surface made of solid marble, and a three-legged base in oxidized solid brass. The three le...

The work is currently loaned to the exhibition "Beyrouth, Les temps du design" hosted at Grand-Hornu Museum in collaboration with MUDAC Lausanne