Atlantica No. 4, 2010, July-August - Iceland Review

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on the flyIn Full Bl o mBy Sari PeltonenPortrait by Páll StefánssonLandscape architect Dagný Bjarnadóttir thoughtoutside the box and put flowers inside it. .Wearing a big bright plastic sunflower in her red hairand a delicate bracelet with ceramic blooms, DagnýBjarnadóttir looks the part spot-on as the woman behind flowerfurniture. Her FurniBloom design line is a set of chairs, benchand Plexiglas table incorporating a lidded box. While a vegetablepatch is often hidden away in a dark corner of the garden,FurniBloom makes it the centerpiece, bringing a bit of natureto even the tightest of spaces. “It has a double function—youcan sit on it and you can open it and eat from it,” Bjarnadóttirexplains, “I thought this will make people smile.” An instant hit,FurniBloom caused a buzz even before it emerged from theprototype stage. Originally introduced in the Magma Kvikadesign exhibition in 2007, flowery furniture is finally availablefor home horticulturalists.While the designer has herself cultivated crops ranging fromthyme to strawberries in FurniBloom, this summer it is filled14 atlantica
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