A Celebration of Colour and Material

Marta Bakowski founded her own design studio in 2013 with the objective to focus on furniture and products. A graduate from Saint Martin’s and the Royal College of Arts, Marta questions the language of objects and their emotional impact, while accentuating materiality and colour.

Continue reading to see the pieces exhibited at Mint’s for LDF2015, and find out more about these beautiful products.

A celebration of colours and materials, these two predominating elements are often the starting point of Marta’s projects. The objects follow simple & graphical shapes with an Elementary functionality, thus leaving room for tactility & expressive qualities while encouraging imagination, interpretation and appropriation.

Rays is a reflection on the evocation of light and the ability of colours & materials to render radiance and brightness according to the surrounding light environment.
The handmade weaving of the lamp took form through many prototypes made by daylight, thus allowing a precise choice of coloured threads creating a vibrating pointillist effect when interlocking.
The collection is an interaction of graphical lines and layered materials with fresh and surprising shades, creating a radiant effect and changing the aspect whenever the light is on or off.

Rays at LDF15

The Chimney Containers are a series of hand-made concrete containers resulting from research exploring the potential and poetics of colour within a common construction material.

The Table Towers are entirely made of moulded shapes assembled piece by piece. They evoke industrial landscapes while their custom-made colors add up a touch of levity and give a new dimension to concrete.

Images © Marta Bakowski and Mint