‘liquid light and soft bowls’ by kristine five melvær, exhibited at designtide tokyo 2012, japanimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

this year’s designtide tokyo 2012 included the food work exhibition curated by torbjørn anderssen and espen voll which featured 21 designs by eight individual norwegian designers, including two pieces from kristine five melvær‘s still life series that reinterprets the traditional role of the still life especially in terms of its representation.

the ‘liquid light’ project is a table top environment-creating accessory made of a birch wood plate with a glass carafe and candle embedded into the solid foundation. the light from the candle is amplified in the convex nature of the glass bowl, illuminating its contents and creating a warm atmosphere during dark winter nights. the ‘soft bowls’ are also made of birch and look like inverted ideas of each other. where one contains lower walls and a central mountain, the other conceals the contents inside allowing them to peek out over the top. both create undulating landscapes in which to present food.

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 2the ‘soft bowls’ and ‘liquid light’ pieces togetherimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 3‘liquid light’ filled with almost anything to project an ambianceimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 4image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

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kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 6image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 7image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 8image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 9an inset brass candle holder provides the lightimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 10‘soft bowls’image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 11one design is the conceptual inverse of the otherimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 12image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 13image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 14image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 15image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 16image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 17the smooth rounded shapes give an almost plastic aestheticimage © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 18image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 19image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 20image © erik five gunnerud

 

 

kristine five melvaer exhibit at designtide tokyo 2012 - 21image © erik five gunnerud

 

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