Swedish furnishings producer Ringvide has designed a set of wooden furnishings that’s patterned with a marbling color method usually used on paper.
Visby-based Ringvide used the suminagashi marbling method to create swirling patterns on its picket tables. The Japanese method is generally used on paper, however Ringvide has developed a option to as a substitute imprint the color on wooden.
“Stumbling throughout a e-book about paper marbling, the concept of constructing it on wooden furnishings quickly began to develop,” Ringvide co-founder Lukas Dahlén instructed Dezeen.
The studio used water-based ink in addition to uncooked color pigments, which had been blended with water to create the designs.
“When a drop of ink is gently put onto a water floor the distinction in floor stress will unfold the ink over the floor,” Dahlén stated. “When that is executed repeatedly, the color will finally cowl the entire floor.”
“Various the way in which the color is utilized to the floor along with totally different technique of disrupting the floor will create totally different patterns, some extra simply managed than others,” he added.
As soon as the color, which is cobalt and cadmium-free, has been added to the water, the studio dipped the fully-assembled furnishings into the water to make sure that the sample wrapped round its corners and sides.
Carrageena, a biopolymer extracted from algae, was added to the water to make it thicker and simpler to create shapes.
The water-based ink has an acrylic binding that makes it stick with the floor of the birch tables, creating patterns that change from piece to piece.
“The ink is absorbed into the dry wooden, working like a stain, colouring the wooden on the depth,” Dahlén stated. “The wooden is completed with oil and wax to encapsulate and defend the color.”
The studio has experimented with totally different colors and says just about any color can be utilized.
“Many of the marble designs we now have made to this point attempt to maintain quite a lot of the wooden to softly add one thing to it,” Dahlén stated. “However we’re engaged on extra daring designs.”
The thought behind the design got here from Dahlén’s curiosity in various kinds of marbling.
“I’ve been fascinated by marbling methods in oil tempera,” he stated.
“Historically these methods have been used to mimic a costlier sort of wooden or various kinds of stone which have been out of attain bodily or economically.”
“In Stockholm, you may usually be amazed by ornamented pretend stone partitions in staircases for instance,” he added.
“However it will also be discovered on furnishings, most sometimes in church buildings. The stress between pretend and actual fascinates me.”
Marbling results are sometimes used to create eye-catching designs. Earlier designers to attract on the method embody British designer Tom Dixon, who created his vibrant Swirl assortment from a “mysterious” materials and style model Forte Forte, which clad one among its shops in marbled onyx.