Natural bedding

2016

The Dutch furniture company Van Der Leeden asked a group of designers to come up with innovative ways to use their main material, rattan and willow. I started my material research by going to the source of the material. The place where it grows. When walking over the material I noticed that the material bended around my feet an formed a natural bedding in the swampy soil. During the design process, I made a series of experiments using moulds and hot water to bend the material. This  material experiments resulted in an experimental shoe design, but also a view into the possibilities of the material. 

 

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