Back to Nature

Jone Skarbøvik

How does our approach to design relate to nature?

Back to Nature is a furniture group in stained birch and pigmented composite material whose aesthetics are linked to nature. A material experimenting project that investigates how objects can communicate through their compilation of shapes. In this case, form elements and patterns borrowed from nature and what is available to find and see in nature. Each piece of furniture can be viewed individually or assembled into a whole.

The work has its origins in the fact that people began to share their image of their everyday lives in product design cave paintings. Here people shared their representation of nature and those who lived in it, mostly animal motifs, but also nature motifs. 

In the back to nature project, I give my view of nature in a similar way to when our ancestors gave theirs thousands of years ago. Back to Nature is therefore strongly associated with actual doing while perhaps reminding us that our relationship with nature for many is further away than it has ever been.

Contact:
jone.skarbovik@edu.beckmans.se
+46 73 716 08 00
instagram.com/jone_skarbovik

Thanks to:
Max Spett, architect, and Daniel Garnebeck, cabinetmaker.