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Linde Freya Tangelder with aspect of her Soft Corners collection for Cassina, debuting in June.
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Valentina Sommariva
In February 2021, Linde Freya Tangelder traveled to Turin, Italy, for a style residency in the historic metropolis. Amid baroque palaces and porticoed streetscapes, the Dutch-born Tangelder, 34, created sketches of facades, archways, stonework—the type of architectural things that encourage the furnishings and objects she layouts as founder of Belgian studio Destroyers/Builders. A several months later on, Tangelder talked about her undertaking to Luca Fuso, CEO of the Italian home furniture business Cassina. On the place, Fuso recommended a collaboration: Cassina would aid fund the experimental get the job done she was building out of the residency and set a handful of pieces into creation as properly. In June, Tangelder’s four-piece Cassina collection will launch through the 60th annual Salone del Cellular in Milan. Identified as Delicate Corners, it consists of a sculptural metal aspect table and 3 poufs with lines reminiscent of Turin’s tightly stacked stones.
The partnership is the 1st in the company’s new Patronage system, a launchpad for young expertise that aims “to define how the long run of style need to evolve,” Fuso states, via e mail. As a result of Patronage, Cassina has supported the publication of the to start with monograph on Tangelder’s perform and two solo demonstrates of her confined-edition pieces—one this spring at Carwan Gallery, in Athens, and an additional coming up in September at Valerie Traan, in Antwerp.
A pouf from Tangelder’s Delicate Corners series with a eating desk she made for Carwan Gallery.
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Giorgos Sfakianakis
Doing work with Cassina has provided Tangelder a window into industrial production strategies. Not that she’s transforming her have technique: For the Turin parts, she states, “I just opened the drawer of the kitchen and took a piece of aluminum foil, and I started off to make the designs.” The Turin sketches had been usually her setting up issue. “It has to be a new reinterpretation of these classical things,” she states. “It has to be a up coming stage.” Soft Corners collection, person parts start out at $1,455, Cassina.com.
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