Ditte Hammerstrom at Galerie Maria Wettergren
Galerie Maria Wettergren has long championed contemporary Scandinavian design. The Paris-based institution’s latest exhibition profiles Danish designer Ditte Hammerstrøm, who plays the notions of detail and sophistication – present in wood-, rope-, plastic- and textile-clad furniture. A strong figure in Scandinavian design, Hammerstrøm runs her own Copenhagen-based studio and has received several prestigious awards. It was with an overtly feminine approach to this typically male-dominated domain, that she exudes her own signature with detail as a fundamental.
Carefully calculated elements are found throughout the exhibition, both in the creation of form but also in the emotions that emerges from these designs. Retail concepts are not just structural additions but ultimately what bind form, function and emotion. Detail is not the only element in this exhibition. Indeed, rope remains a ‘red line’ through this latest collection.
Ditte Hammerstrøm demonstrates an extreme attention to detail in in every room of the exhibition almost as a personal quest for perfect expertise. She reacts like an anthropologist – with a desire to deconstruct structures and to form new ones. Not omitting the fact that form follows function, she shows that the form can also follow smaller components.
This exhibition “For the love of detail” at Galerie Maria Wettergren runs until 14 March 2015.
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