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Staffan Holm

June 17, 2011

With a growing number of commissions and awards to his name, Holm often works around double meanings and functions in his pieces. Many of his items take their influence from something we may have all seen but perhaps not pondered as much. Holm’s stool lifts its shape from Duc d’Albe’s old anchoring tripods, hammered deep into the seabed; which now see more use from Seagulls than boats.

What are the problems and needs which influence your work?
How to create emotional function in the pieces and make them something that we commit to live with not just consume.

Staffan Holm.

What gives you inspiration?
Bad art, bad design and our cynical manufacturing and consumer society. The things which make me angry drive me to do better. At the same time I am also engaged by well-done, well planned and executed items and concepts.

What is it like to be a designer working in Västra Götaland?
There is a nice sense of community in the manufacturing industry here. The slight element of being the underdog in the Swedish design landscape also offers us a uniqueness and freedom to do something unique.

More: www.staffanholm.com

Text: Anna-Stina Linden Ivarsson
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