The sketching helps you think, you know, you have some kind of a vision and you need to
try it out quickly on paper, but then I just want to see how it works really fast, so the
computers are a really good tool for that. But I mean, I always try to get down to the workshop
as fast as I can, because that's where everything happens when you're experimenting with the materials,
listening to what the material wants to do, that's really inspiring.
It's bent in one direction like this, like that.
And then CNC mill comes and just cuts this curve. And if you cut the curve more steeply,
you get a different height of table, so we can have used the same sort of molded shell
for different heights. And that's obviously a very convenient thing production-wise.
I guess for me, everything started with the new table that I did with a Japanese
colleague Dan Sunaga. And that was really the starting point for us because we had some success
with the table in terms of getting the Nordic design price and also the L design price in
Sweden. And so that really was a door opener for our careers in many ways. The same year I was
a guest exhibitor. The idea for me was just to try it out and see how it was, and I didn't have a
lot of expectations. I just showed a small mill steel that I did with a CNC mill, and the impact was
much better than I ever could imagine.
A lot of stools. Yeah, but that's the way it is. You work with something and a lot of
new ideas on the same theme pops up, and you really have to sort of try them out.
A lot of old tools is attached to the manufacturing techniques that you can do this.
This isn't possible to do, and it's like old tools, so it's interesting to see
if you can push the model a little bit.
I have a background as a carpenter, a furniture maker, so I really
possess that tool in the workshop. I need to get all my creativity out of my hands.
That's the way stuff happens for me.
I'm thinking, although you can make all kinds of spacey things with this material,
I'd like to just keep it quite simple. This would be nice, it would work, but I had to add
something for stability. I'm working with this detailing here. It's like a branch branching
out, so I'm going to use that in the back here and also in the front. That's going to take a lot
of precision to make that look nice. It's going to be extremely difficult, and it's also quite
thin the dimensions of these legs. It's okay if a chair is a little bit like this,
but not much, just a little bit. It's so cool.
Can you believe it?
The cool thing is that as soon as this wood is dry, it stays like this.
It's pretty damn cool.
I just had to find out where you'd like to sit on the seat. You have to make the seat
shaped off the rear end just to make it comfortable. I mean, after all, I wouldn't chair,
so you need to have some kind of curve just to make it feel a little bit padded.
But now we have another really nice factory that we have tested many times.
In the end, they say they don't believe we have it. So I'm really looking forward to seeing
you in the next week. Yeah, I'm going to be completely done with your test here.
Yeah, you got it.
So
I think everyone has a hard time seeing their own style I think especially in the beginning
because I think many people especially me use a style or use the aesthetics that the
product need and then maybe after a few years you start to see that there's some kind of
a red thread maybe running through all the all the products and to me it feels like too
early to box in a certain style I just want to grow into my own style in peace you know
I just want to work and see where the work takes me and then maybe in 20 years or something
we'll have this talk again now we can have a look at what my style was
