Designer and curator Kirsten Visdal has crammed a former smoking room on the Musée d’Orsay in Paris with Norwegian furnishings, objects and sculptures.
For 3 days solely, Visdal transformed Le Fumoir – a room that is often closed to most people – proper right into a showcase of Norwegian artists, designers and kinds.
The exhibition, Et Hjem/Chez Soi, featured work by updated designers along with Ali Shah Gallefoss and Andreas Engesvik, along with classics by the likes of Terje Ekstrøm and Hans Brattrud.
The enterprise was led by Design and Construction Norway (DOGA), the Oslo-based design organisation and gallery that is acknowledged for staging the Norwegian Presence exhibitions in Milan.
Consistent with Cecilie Molvær Jørgensen of DOGA, the intention was to concentrate on the distinct qualities of Norwegian design, in distinction with completely different Nordic worldwide areas.
“This was an beautiful various to showcase Norwegian design in a mannequin new technique and to create one factor sudden,” she instructed Dezeen.
“Often Norwegian design is put within the equivalent class as Scandinavian design – blond wood, white, minimalistic, functionalistic – nevertheless Le Fumoir gave us the possibility to point it is so way over that,” she continued.
“It could be eclectic, playful, vibrant, easy, curvy and maximalistic.”
Le Fumoir was initially part of a resort throughout the former Gare d’Orsay railway station, which occupied the developing throughout the early twentieth century sooner than it was remodeled proper right into a museum.
Visdal created playful contrasts with the room’s elaborate decor, which includes ornate wooden wall panelling, heavy curtains, patterned pink wallpaper and a giant patterned Persian rug.
In a single affiliation, a sand-casted aluminium desk by Gallefoss sits alongside the gridded steel Munch chairs by designers Andreas Engesvik and Jonas Stokke, which can be produced by Vestre.
Behind it, a standard sideboard displayed experimental ceramics by artist Eyvind Solli and aluminium lamps from producer Hydro.
In entrance of the distinctive fireplace, the Gem sofa from updated furnishings mannequin Northern sits alongside Brattrud’s Nineteen Sixties Scandia chairs, produced by heritage mannequin Fjordfiesta.
Completely different highlights embrace Ekstrøm’s curvy Eighties Ekstrem chair, produced by Varier, which sits in entrance of a consuming desk topped with porcelain dishes from producer Ment.
“We wished to create sudden mixtures and current that Norwegian design is a various combination of conventional mid-century and updated,” said Jørgensen.
“The excellence between the understated class of Nordic craftsmanship and the grandeur of this iconic museum creates a singular dialogue, showcasing how simplicity can converse volumes in most likely essentially the most excellent of settings,” added Visdal.
The exhibition moreover included objects by Matre, a model new Norwegian mannequin that launched in 2024.
Completely different exhibitors included reclining chair producer Stressless, doormat mannequin Heymat, textile agency Fram Oslo and workplace furnishings producer Flokk.
The colour palette combined shades of pink, burgundy, pink and muted browns.
“The pink palette was influenced by the room itself,” said Jørgensen.
“We mixed burgundy and pink with plums and berries, and finally that fireplace hydrant-red throughout the Munch chairs. And naturally, just a bit little little bit of blond wood to perform accents pretty than the underside.”
The photographs is by Studio Dreyer+Hensley.
Et Hjem/Chez Soi ran from 22 to 24 November at Musée d’Orsay, Paris. See Dezeen Events Data for additional construction and design events across the globe.