Suddenly, your furniture looks a lot less like furniture. Product designer Vincent Laine and Norwegian manufacturer Vestre have doubled down on experimentation with IMMATERIAL, a bench and a mirror first unveiled at the debut of Jacques Cartier Studios in Paris. Sculptural in form, the two pieces transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and show what happens when industrial production meets artistic expression.
The collaboration gives shape to Vestre’s creative spirit and its philosophy of ‘a little madness’. The manufacturer sets aside ten per cent of its operations for unexpected collaborations and side projects that prioritise free thinking and fast action. For Laine and his studio Anagram, the vision is a ‘distant near future’. For Vestre, it is about creating social meeting places rooted in Scandinavian design traditions and the spirit of allemansrätten (the freedom to roam).
”I think you have to just let the worlds collide, because it’s only in that state of chaos and entropy that the lines can truly be blurred — between fashion, furniture, art and design, or even geographically between Oslo and Paris,” says Vincent Laine.
Together, they imagine a tomorrow that is not only more beautiful but also more interesting than today.
