Design platform Slancha has curated Beneath One Roof, a furnishings and homeware exhibition in Glasgow that spotlights 14 up-and-coming Scottish designers.
The inaugural exhibition from Slancha, which is run by designers Findlay MacDonald and Harvey Everson, offered a hand-picked choice of furnishings, ceramics and lighting items united by an emphasis on materiality and kind.
MacDonald and Everson had been prompted to curate the exhibition after visiting Milan design week and observing Scotland‘s comparative lack of a cohesive design group, regardless of the distinctive work being produced by native makers.
“The extra exhibitions and exhibits like this that occur in Scotland, the extra individuals will begin to see the spirited design scene rising right here,” MacDonald informed Dezeen. “We’re excited to be a part of that motion.”
Among the many items on show as a part of Beneath One Roof was Nicholas Davis‘s Fireplace Chair, crafted utilizing African sapele timber.
The chair incorporates a tough construction and daring graphic silhouette, knowledgeable by the designer’s background learning graphic design on the Glasgow Faculty of Artwork earlier than pivoting to furnishings.
“The Fireplace Chair is a good instance of latest design in Scotland, with a particular Scandi-Scot affect,” MacDonald stated, including that Davis’s apply exemplifies “distinctive craftsmanship and attention-grabbing varieties”.
Oliver Spendley utilised regionally sourced supplies from his base in Durness – a diminutive village on the north coast of Scotland – to create his Infinite Orbit assortment.
The totemic sculptures are made utilizing discs of Scottish timber, fitted onto Lewisian gneiss stones to recommend a celestial object and its orbit.
“Every timber base is hand-finished with precision, alternating between glossy and textured surfaces,” stated MacDonald.
“This cautious consideration to element displays the pure textures present in our surroundings, from the undulating ripples of rivers to the layered patterns of tidal sands.”
Different items within the exhibition that pay homage to nature embody the Vessel IX vases from SHY Design, a Glasgow-based studio exploring the emotional connection between consumer and object.
Crafted from scagolia – a plaster sometimes used for floor ornament – the vases characteristic expressive varieties with craggy rock-like surfaces.
“SHY nod to materials origins, first constructing their items into forceful uncomplicated architectural varieties earlier than unexpectedly carving into and destructing the surfaces to create novel varieties and reveal the patterns laced under,” MacDonald stated.
Fluid Display by ceramicist Frances Ross is a divider comprised of 72 translucent Parian porcelain tiles set inside an ash body, which diffuse featherlight and shift in color to resemble flowing liquid.
And Greenlaw-based Richard Goldsworthy, whose work celebrates the inherent great thing about the pure world, contributed a sculpture crafted from charred walnut and pewter.
Additionally included within the exhibition was furnituremaker Laurence Veitch’s piece Kiko, designed in collaboration with architect Dafni Michalaki, which incorporates a vernacular kind impressed by graffiti.
Comparable themes lie within the work of Glasgow-based Charles Myatt, together with his Lichen Stone assemblage crafted from lime, silica and cement that takes cues from urbanism and the materiality of cities.
The exhibition additionally offered works by Rory Middleton, Neal Cameron, Calum Bettison, Ruth Mae Martin, James Grossman, Ruth Elizabeth Jones and an oak and aluminium desk by the Slancha founders.
MacDonald and Everson hope that Beneath One Roof can lend a hand the Scottish design motion proceed to develop.
“This occasion has introduced such an vitality to the designers and the native design scene,” MacDonald stated. “We have had so many individuals specific a need for extra occasions like this, which actually highlights there is a forceful urge for food for design in Scotland.”
“Our hope is to maintain constructing on this collective vitality, sustaining the momentum whereas inspiring extra individuals to design and create right here in Scotland.”
