Lakelet
by Front, 2024
Drawing inspiration from the natural landscape of their land, Anna Lindgren and Sofia Lagerkvist of the Swedish studio Front have designed the Lakelet glass coffee table collection, a natural complement to the Pebble Rubble project.
“Lakelet means small lake. – explain Anna Lindgren and Sofia Lagerkvist – With this series we wanted to portray the emotion that, imprinted on water, the colors of nature give, continuously changing depending on the season, the time of day and the surrounding environment”.
If the generous volumes of Pebble Rubble evoke, with their organic forms, the stones in which we come across while walking in the woods, the tables return, transferred on the glass, the fantastic palette of watercolor colors that blend into each other as reflections in a mirror of water. The three tables, of different shapes and sizes, rest on the ground on a base in curved glass and are designed to give life to a choral composition. They are available in clear, smoked glass, with printed top and transparent or smoked base and in the elegant iridescent version.
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The work of the two Swedish designers Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren is innovative compared to the traditional canons of Scandinavian design, towards more artistic and expressive territories. In their language, the use of visual effect becomes the means to move within a space halfway between irony and magic; the product, before responding to the functional needs for which it is designed, is experienced as a story to involve the observer, called to discover through “surprise” the assumptions behind the design process.
Front’s designs have been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the’M+ in Hong Kong, the National Museum in Stockholm, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
