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Beast seats - nature inspires sculptural furniture designer to bring wilderness into everyday life
Like wild animals in their habitat, Edit Szabo’s sculptural furniture adapt to historic and contemporary architectural styles as well as natural spaces
“Wild animals are our reflections,” says Vilmos Csanyi, ethologist and evolution researcher. This is the thought behind the works of Transylvanian-born sculptor, now working in France, the UK, and China. Szabó’s series of animal-based furniture called TAME consists of four animals deeply rooted in human mythologies: the Bear, the Deer, the Wolf and the Fox. As an example of visual storytelling the wild animals that appear in the forest symbolize human emotion and narrative through their shapes, movements, and simple presence. TAME is the artistic and practical definition of this very special relationship between mankind and the animal kingdom.
“The absurdities of growing up in Transylvania in the eighties gave me a very special perspective from which I have been looking at the world ever since. The absurd and grotesque nature of Ceausescu’s military dictatorship put a spell on our everyday lives, from which the Transylvanian forests and their animals gave us kids a shelter and a constant inspiration,” says Edit Szabó, who earned her university degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. Szabó’s works of architectural ceramics are always organically integrated into their environment, thereby revealing the essence of their space. The pieces are not merely decorative; they do not feel foreign, like an afterthought – on the contrary, they become meaningful as the integrating element of their setting.
Edit Szabo’s favoured material is durable thanks to the hardness of ceramics and their chemical properties. Using hand tools and sculptor’s instruments, she creates artisanal pieces from appealing, long-lasting materials that age aesthetically, preserving their value. The Deer, the Bear, the Wolf and the Fox of the TAME furniture series are simplified into pure geometric shapes displaying moments of realism, while the sensuality of their curved forms invites the touch as a means to understanding their true figures. The sculptures adapt to their environment just like the animals they represent: placed in old, classical buildings or minimalist offices, they find their ways to create an a piece of moving aesthetics independent from their surroundings.
“When we escaped from the endless streets of socialist block buildings, and we went to the forests with the other kids, we had personal encounters with these animals. I remember watching bears from a couple of metres away while collecting raspberries in the woods with my grandmother. Because Transylvania is a very cold place, they used to catch the baby foxes, and raised them in cages in the collectives. We snuck into these places to take food to the foxes living in captivity,” says the artist of her personal motivation in the project.
Similarly to wild animals that survive in the roughest conditions of the animal kingdom, the furniture pieces will remain uncommonly long-lived, even in the most extreme conditions. The archetypal forms were manually pounded into negative moulds, and later fired at a high temperature from chamotte clay into exceptionally hard, durable, frost-resistant, water-resistant, chemically inert, UV resistant, and easy-to-clean pieces. The furniture is hollow thanks to the method used to press their forms, making them light and easily arranged, while they can be fixed to any foundation, and any form of electronics may be installed in their voids. They can also accommodate any type of heating, as piping can be installed inside their shapes.
Like wild animals in their habitat, Edit Szabo’s sculptural furniture adapt to historic and contemporary architectural styles as well as natural spaces
“Wild animals are our reflections,” says Vilmos Csanyi, ethologist and evolution researcher. This is the thought behind the works of Transylvanian-born sculptor, now working in France, the UK, and China. Szabó’s series of animal-based furniture called TAME consists of four animals deeply rooted in human mythologies: the Bear, the Deer, the Wolf and the Fox. As an example of visual storytelling the wild animals that appear in the forest symbolize human emotion and narrative through their shapes, movements, and simple presence. TAME is the artistic and practical definition of this very special relationship between mankind and the animal kingdom.
“The absurdities of growing up in Transylvania in the eighties gave me a very special perspective from which I have been looking at the world ever since. The absurd and grotesque nature of Ceausescu’s military dictatorship put a spell on our everyday lives, from which the Transylvanian forests and their animals gave us kids a shelter and a constant inspiration,” says Edit Szabó, who earned her university degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. Szabó’s works of architectural ceramics are always organically integrated into their environment, thereby revealing the essence of their space. The pieces are not merely decorative; they do not feel foreign, like an afterthought – on the contrary, they become meaningful as the integrating element of their setting.
Edit Szabo’s favoured material is durable thanks to the hardness of ceramics and their chemical properties. Using hand tools and sculptor’s instruments, she creates artisanal pieces from appealing, long-lasting materials that age aesthetically, preserving their value. The Deer, the Bear, the Wolf and the Fox of the TAME furniture series are simplified into pure geometric shapes displaying moments of realism, while the sensuality of their curved forms invites the touch as a means to understanding their true figures. The sculptures adapt to their environment just like the animals they represent: placed in old, classical buildings or minimalist offices, they find their ways to create an a piece of moving aesthetics independent from their surroundings.
“When we escaped from the endless streets of socialist block buildings, and we went to the forests with the other kids, we had personal encounters with these animals. I remember watching bears from a couple of metres away while collecting raspberries in the woods with my grandmother. Because Transylvania is a very cold place, they used to catch the baby foxes, and raised them in cages in the collectives. We snuck into these places to take food to the foxes living in captivity,” says the artist of her personal motivation in the project.
Similarly to wild animals that survive in the roughest conditions of the animal kingdom, the furniture pieces will remain uncommonly long-lived, even in the most extreme conditions. The archetypal forms were manually pounded into negative moulds, and later fired at a high temperature from chamotte clay into exceptionally hard, durable, frost-resistant, water-resistant, chemically inert, UV resistant, and easy-to-clean pieces. The furniture is hollow thanks to the method used to press their forms, making them light and easily arranged, while they can be fixed to any foundation, and any form of electronics may be installed in their voids. They can also accommodate any type of heating, as piping can be installed inside their shapes.
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