Terroir Project Collection
Terroir Project Collection is a collection of chairs and lamps made from common brown algae (fucus seaweed) from the Danish coastline, designed and created by Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate students Jonas Edvard and Nikolaj Steenfatt.
Production Process
They dry and grind the seaweed into a powder. Then cook it into a glue, using the natural polymer in the brown algae. They then added the seaweed glue with paper that creates a durable material similar to cork. This new substance allows them to mold different products for the Terroir Project Collection.
2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year nomination
The Terroir Project Collection was nominated for the 2016 WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association in the category of World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
Planet Earth is 70% ocean and there is a seemingly endless amount of common brown algae that washes up along shorelines around the world. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate students Jonas Edvard and Nikolaj Steenfatt developed a means to transform fucus seaweed from the Danish coast and create chairs and design lamps that allow for maximum strength and minimum weight. Their methodology of drying and grinding the seaweed, cooking into a glue, and then combining with paper led to a sustainable material that is malleable, durable and colorful enough to use as furniture and home products. For their innovative utilization of biodegradable seaweed for household use, for their clever discovery and testing of a suitable production process, for their beautiful design of shapes, surfaces and silhouettes that shows what the ocean can provide, the Terroir Project Collection is a worthy nominee for the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year.
External links
- Sit On Seaweed, Sustainable From The Sea
- Seaweed and paper combine to create furniture
- Jonas Edvard
- Nikolaj Steenfatt
- 2016 WOWSA Awards Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
- 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees
