When Lise Vester was finishing her design college software, it marked a turning level in her life. Exploring an open-ended theme of household, she visited a hospice heart. It was there that Vester skilled the idea of therapeutic structure, and in addition realized that she may merge her intuitive instincts together with her ardour to create one thing significant. “Studying how design influences consolation in an area felt profound, and continues to encourage my work as we speak,” she says.
A local of Denmark, Vester studied furnishings design and enterprise as an undergraduate. She had the help of her household, and met two key people, a gallerist and a lighting firm design supervisor. The pair quickly turned casual mentors who had been at all times there to supply recommendation and hear. Their help and encouragement helped to construct Vester’s confidence as she set out on her path.
Lise Vester
Vester ultimately headed to the Royal School of Artwork in London, the place she earned a grasp’s diploma, then accepted jobs as a contract designer for a variety of firms, together with Louis Poulsen. In 2022 she based her eponymous studio primarily based in Copenhagen.
When Vester experiments with glass and lightweight, her philosophy of form follows emotions is on the forefront. Her items are sometimes playful and sculptural, with components that spark curiosity and invite engagement. Whether or not her objects are for on a regular basis use or inventive installations, Vester goals to craft experiences on each sensory and emotional ranges.
Even with loads of tasks on faucet as we speak, Vester has a romantic imaginative and prescient of her later years. She would like to spend hours crafting rings, necklaces, and different baubles in a comfortable workshop. “Jewellery fascinates me – the tales it carries about identification, reminiscences, and connections,” she provides. “I see jewellery as one other option to inform tales by means of design.”
Immediately, Lise Vester joins us for Friday 5!
Picture: Lise Vester
This guide resonates with my curiosity in Neuroaesthetics and our mind-brain-body relation. It dives into how artwork and design have an effect on our brains and feelings, which is a continuing theme in my work. Identical to bodily train lowers cortisol ranges in our our bodies, neuroscience might help inform us, how artwork impacts our psychological and bodily well being too. It additionally jogs my memory of Google’s “Making Sense of Colour” set up at Milan Design Week 2024, and their 2019 collaboration with Muuto, the place they explored how in another way designed areas can evoke emotional responses.
Picture: Lise Vester
The message of this artwork piece is to prioritize our psychological and relational well-being as a lot as our bodily well being. The remedy bottle is a common language of one thing that heals us, and the set up serves as a software, serving to us begin a dialog and to interrupt down stigma and taboo about psychological well being.
Ai Weiwei’s The Human Comedy (2022), put in on the Basillica San Giorgio Maggiore Picture: Courtesy Francesco Allegretto
I’m fascinated by glass for its fluidity, energy, and the way it transforms gentle. Visiting Murano in 2023 sparked my dream of collaborating with Venetian glassblowers on a contemporary chandelier. Ai Weiwei’s piece, the biggest Murano glass chandelier ever made, reimagines the romantic floral custom right into a haunting reflection on dying. It’s each gorgeous and unsettling, showcasing distinctive craftsmanship whereas difficult our relationship with mortality.
Picture: Courtesy of Ben Richards
Japan’s neon indicators are filled with creativity and character, and are a lot enjoyable. They’ve the flexibility to remodel peculiar streets into immersive experiences. Paired with Bruce Nauman’s iconic neon work, “One Hundred Stay and Die,” these indicators ignite my curiosity within the storytelling potential of sunshine and signage – one thing that might be attention-grabbing to discover additional.
Elevated Copenhagen Bench (Københavner Bænken) by TV2, a marketing campaign from a Danish TV channel TV2 Picture: Courtesy of Søren Solkær for TV2
In 2022, Danish TV channel TV2 made 15 altered variations of the enduring Copenhagen benches. The benches had been elevated by 85 cm to represent rising sea ranges – A easy however efficient manner of creating local weather change really feel tangible – it actually forces you to search for and picture the impression on our cities.
Works by Lise Vester:
Picture: Peter Vinther, on the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition 2024
Lighthouse 2024
The chandelier “Lighthouse” is made in collaboration with Louis Poulsen for the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition 2024.
The chandelier reinterprets the lighthouse’s gentle by combining the groundbreaking invention of the Fresnel lens with trendy lens know-how in an experimental piece. The lighthouse symbolizes hope, inspiration, and encouragement – a marker that guides us safely by means of life’s challenges. The fashionable Fresnel lenses create a magical, playful gentle that sparks curiosity and reflection. As a symbolic beacon, the sunshine supplies steerage and wondrous experiences for individuals who encounter it on their journey.
Picture: Luka Hesselberg for Design Museum Denmark
Neon Chandelier Concept Generator 2022
The neon chandelier Concept Generator is made in collaboration with Louis Poulsen for the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition 2024.
The Chandelier is impressed by the incandescent bulb, symbolizing a brilliant thought, and pays homage to the inventive concepts which might be the gas for innovation and manufacturing amongst designers. With the Concept Generator, Lise Vester challenges the standard neon signal aesthetic by making a three-dimensional art work, which, with its massive scale, form, and nice glow, turns into a form of spatial expertise of the blue and atmospheric gentle.
Picture: Cecilie Jegsen at Stevns Klint
Reflections 2023
Reflections is an experimental assortment of mirrors crafted with mouth-blown free hand sculpted glass and silvering methods. Collaborating with expert glassblowers, this venture reimagines concave and convex mirror design, elevating the expertise by means of nice inventive craftsmanship. It goals to create recent views and reflective areas, igniting self-awareness and increasing our notion of the world and the areas we stay in.
Via playful exploration of sunshine and type, Reflections uncovers the transformative and introspective powers held inside reflections, stimulating new experiences and contemplative moments in our each day lives.
Picture: Cecilie Jegsen at Observatoriet
Dream View Sphere 2021
The Dream View Sphere presents a brand new manner of seeing issues and makes room for reflection. Cease and see the fantastic thing about the peculiar on a regular basis life, and our skill to alter perspective. The sphere is made in mouth blown glass, and is positioned close to the window the place it tasks and objectifies the view of the sky – solely by means of daylight. Dream View Sphere is acquired by Designmuseum Danmark, and is exhibited at The Future is Current 2022-2024.
Picture: Cecilie Jegsen at Observatoriet
Dream View Chair 2021
The bench is made for folks to “search for and marvel”. The brushed metal displays the sky and the curvature presents us lean again in a restful place whereas inviting us to glaze and join with the sky and our dreamworlds. The bench permits us to take a look at the clouds and stars within the firm of each-other and the chair permits self introspection.
