How Lucas Morten is moving Scandinavian design beyond the mid-century aesthetic:
), who is creating pieces that fit, he says via email, “in the gray zone between art and functional furniture.” They are also more informed by the avant-garde and brutalism than mid-century design. “I think people can relate more easily to classic designs than new ones,” says the artist of that period’s “stickiness.
The pieces he developed have nothing small town about them; rather they are confident, graphic, and in the case of an almost Pi-symbol-shaped table, geometric. A standing lamp, “Böj,” looks like a slab of bent cement: It’s made of fiberglass. Morten combines the organic and the man-made. “I get a lot of satisfaction from getting to know new materials and combinations,” he says.
Others will share in that pleasure when, on February 1, an exhibition of Morten’s reinforced jute cloth “Skal” vases opens at, in Copenhagen. These are sculpted in natural hemp, then strengthened with polyester. “I love how Lucas takes a traditional technique and material and works with it in a way so it becomes somewhat more of an art piece,” says Tableau’s Julius Iversen, who is also of the opinion that the artist’s work feels more international than classically Swedish.
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