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Photos by Marian Jade Larsen and Ida Noemi.

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Ida Noemi is one of my favourite designers at the moment. And that is not because she is a proud member of my happy family :)

*Photos 1&2 display her graduation project Mind the Gap at AHO.
*Photo 3 shows the porcelain lamp Story, designed together with Vibeke Skar, and with help from Ann Kristin Einarsen. I wrote about the collaboration here.
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About Mind the Gap:
The furniture Mind the Gap are a part of her diploma «Meaningful Embraces with Objects», a discursive diploma looking at the emotional side of design. The diploma is inspired by the fact that emotionally neutral objects do not exist, and that today we search for objects that are not only functional, but also inspiring. We fill our homes with furniture and things we love, and objects that say something about who we are.

The entrance is the first room you enter in a home, and the last room you leave. You never spend time there, yet you always pass by – a transitional moment of extreme stress or ultimate relief. The furniture Mind the Gap comment on this two-sidedness of the entrance: As a charge/relief station, the console and the stool function as storage furniture for must haves, a place to get armed or disarmed.
More pictures and info here.
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About Story:
The lamp is telling a story about the Norwegian traditions and way of living, the contrast between the cold winter weather and warm clothing and homes. Story draws inspiration from melting icicles and the warm light shining through the windows of our cabins in the mountains, it sheds a new light upon traditional Norwegian knitting patterns and gives a new and softer expression to the cold and hard porcelain surface.
More pictures and info here.