Jaguar Magazine 02/2017 – English

ANDREAS
BERGSAKER
NORWAY
Copenhagen based Norwegian
Andreas Ferdinand Riise
Bergsaker has been a popular
name to watch on the highly
competitive Scandinavian
design scene, so it’s little
surprise that he’s been snapped
up by the popular design
brand HAY to work in-house
for the time being. With a
clear talent for making the
mundane and the everyday
more beautiful, he is a
master not just of product
longevity in the physical sense,
but also imbuing them with
lasting emotional value.
Championing traditional
craftsmanship and tactile
qualities, pieces such as his
Singularity vase pictured
here are in high demand
as things you’ll want to have
and to hold forever.
MARCIN RUSAK
POLAND
Marcin Rusak takes his inspiration from
flowers, but not in a way you’ve ever seen
before. As the son and grandson
of flower growers in Warsaw, Poland,
he has long been fascinated by the
decorative possibilities of the natural world,
but after some serious investigation
into the flower industry he saw potential
not in traditional petal motifs but
in reusing botanical waste. Creating ethereal
(and highly collectable) furniture,
lighting and surfaces that use flowers set
into specially developed resin, Rusak
encourages us to explore our surroundings,
question our consumption,
and look at the details of our lives in
a different light. Rusak’s Flora Perma
collection as pictured here sees
flowers ‘frozen’ into playful patterns,
then machined to create
a new, fossilised-marble effect.
THE JAGUAR 49