*폴딩 레자 [ Tove Emilsson ] Hunters Bend

가죽을 삶다.
가죽을 접어 공간을 만든다. 그렇게 접혀진 공간은 
삶아서, 사용처에 맞게 길들인다.
생생한 가죽과는 달리 삶아진 가죽은
기존의 가죽이 가지고 있던 텍스쳐를 버리고
새로운 텍스쳐를 입는다.
(마치 사람의 스킨을 묘하게 닮아 있다.) 
우리의 공간도 이렇게 삶아서 다른 공간으로
전이할 필요가 있지 않을까?
단순하고 간결하면서도 독특한 아이템으로
사용하기 좋을 것 같다.

reviewed by SJ
 
These wallets and spectacle cases are each made of a single piece of leather that’s been folded into shape then hardened in boiling water.

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Called Hunters Bend, the collection was created by London designer Tove Emilsson while studying at HDK School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Boiled leather, or cuir bouilli, can be moulded while still wet but becomes permanently tough and rigid once dry.

It was used to make armour in medieval times and more recently by London designer Simon Hasan, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008 with a series of vases and stools made of boiled leather.

Hunters Bend
Tove Emilsson, 2011

The Hunter’s Bend project is about how our personal possessions affect our perceived identity and in what way the value of an object may increase with the relationship that is built up towards the user.

I have looked upon traces of time as an extension of an existing object.

The outcome is a series of leather cases made out of one piece of folded leather, hardened and locked within itself.

The history contained in leather, as a living material has been an important part of the project as well as how its features are used in the making and then allowing the product to change with use.

from  dezeen