A furniture designer and Concept designer join forces to produce a method of producing one off furniture products. The products use bees as the concept to help raise number from the dropping off insect. The furniture pieces are desected and put into the hive with hole similar to the hive trays which are then filled with nectar. The process takes a while from spring to the end of summer but I think the concept to help raise numbers of bees whilest producing one off products is really interesting, unique and thought through.
Industrial designer Kevin Hill, concept designer Vanessa Harden and artist Ben Faga have come together to create a new process working with a custom designed beehive that allows them to collaborate with honey bees to create bespoke products. Their first venture using this process will be to create an Edwardian inspired baby crib. They have chosen this artifact as their inaugural product as it reflects the purpose of the honeycomb itself; bees use comb to rear their young. The crib symbolizes the hope of a future pairing between humankind and the environment. It is a reminder that one must create products that shape cultural values towards a sustainable future. Through creating this physical and visual relationship with the bees they believe the crib will foster a unique form of sensitivity and understanding of the child’s place within the greater ecological organism that is our planet.Their bees and bespoke hives are located on the roof of their studio in Dalston, London. These bees forage from the local communities to source the materials needed to embellish, what will become, the Edwardian baby crib. Through interspecies collaboration the crib redefines what is believed to be “community” to include other creatures as co-inhabitants of the earth.
Above - images of testing the concept in the yard of the designers office.
From this it makes me want to try and involve aspects or design for something similar to this as I think the concept is really strong.
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