Fade Stools by Catherine Aitken

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Photo by Malene Jorck Heide
Winner of the 2012 Time To Design award, Scottish designer Catherine Aitken has created a colourful series of stools that explore gradual changes through increasing or decreasing levels of colour and material.

Photo by Malene Jorck Heide


Established in 2008, Time To Design is an international design award that provides an emerging designer with a three month residency at the Danish Art Workshops, followed by a two week exhibition.

Photo by Malene Jorck Heide

The results of the residency for Aitken are a collection of stools that combine wood, metal and a cotton cord from Japan. "I spent a great deal of time searching fro the perfect cotton cord, and finally settled on two," she says; "The first a very natural and malleable and the second more refined with a slight sheen. These choices added an appropriate level of contrast of matte versus satin and provided a little cushioning."

Photo by Malene Jorck Heide








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