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Munch Museum’s household furniture is motivated by the artist’s colours
Sustainability-centered Norwegian home furnishings organization Vestre has made furnishings developed by Andreas Engesvik and Jonas Stokke for the new Munch Museum in Oslo
Norwegian home furnishings firm Vestre and designers Andreas Engesvik and Jonas Stokke have developed household furniture for the Munchmuseet, or Munch Museum, in Oslo, opened in Oct 2021 and made by Spanish architecture business Estudio Herreros. Dubbed ‘The Munch Series’, the Munch Museum household furniture selection contains chairs and tables utilized for the café, as nicely as sofas, benches, and lounge chairs applied in the course of the room.
Seating at the Munch Museum
Sofa exhibited in entrance of Edvard Munch’s Moonlight (1895)
‘Even if it is a museum, points do not have to be awkward,’ states Stokke. ‘You can swiftly draw some slim flat wood benches with slim leather cushions. But we needed guests to be able to consider a split and definitely rest. And then you are likely to will need ergonomics in the back and a shaped seat.’
Created in collaboration with Engesvik (the two designers, as effectively as Vestre, won a public competitiveness to structure the collection in 2017), the home furniture pieces feature levels of metal mesh arranged about steel frames and moulded cushions built of wool textile. The components have been selected to complement the design: the frame’s weight helps sustain balance, the steel mesh was chosen for utmost ergonomics, and the cushions present a tactile experience to reach convenience and warmth.
Chair shown in entrance of Edvard Munch’s View from Nordstrand (1900–1901)
‘The museum is also built so that you can go upwards, specifically to a exclusive office, with no going via all the halls,’ continues Stokke. ‘We wished to make space for a crack specifically exactly where the people come out of one department and are on their way to shift on to the upcoming a person.’
The colour palette was one more vital component to take into account the designers analysed hundreds of Munch’s paintings and worked closely with Norwegian paint maker Jotun to generate bespoke shades for the home furnishings. The resulting a few colors, dusty pink, ochre yellow and dark blue, are dubbed ‘Skin’, ‘Hair’, and ‘Night’, and replicate the structure duo’s particular interpretations of the artwork on display.
Chairs and table for the café at the Munch Museum
Like all Vestre solutions, the Munch Museum home furniture is produced to past: all features have been welded collectively, galvanized, and varnished, creating the pieces extremely resilient and acceptable as both indoor and outdoor home furniture. Each and every piece was manufactured so that even if its color fades following a several many years, it will be easy to sandblast it and repaint it. ‘The museum will draw in men and women from all in excess of the earth: it is a perfect arena to promote what we contact day to day democracy, meeting spots in which folks can arrive together and share ideas, existence experiences, and exchange thoughts,’ claims Thomas Sund, Vestre’s vice CEO.
‘When anything is truly excellent and of higher high quality, it will become common,’ adds Engesvik. ‘The structure is very fundamental, it has no techniques. If persons fully grasp what they see, they come to feel protected.’ §