Studio Johanna Seelemann
Studio Johanna Seelemann

Design studio exploring the mystification of everyday objects and materials in our environment, and their contexts.

The studio works on a wide range of typologies, from designed products to research-driven installations.


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2023    —    Vitrum



In the Vitrum series, Johanna Seelemann explores and celebrates the imperfections of glassmaking, creating an extraordinary series of decorative vessels. Air bubbles, which are usually regarded as faults in industrial production, were deliberately added by Seelemann, who included starch in the making process to ensure that as many bubbles were created as possible. A slumping, irregular vessel was encouraged as well. As a result of resetting the usual standard of glassmaking and imagining alternative applications, faulty glass now becomes an innovative, especially tactile object that is unique and desirable. Seeleman collaborated with fellow designer Daniele Misso on the original Vitrum project and Seelemann is now looking for new applications for the glass, aiming to create a repeatable serial production, where no piece is the same. Importantly, the glass remains pure and can be easily recycled.

Concept, Design, Development

Johanna Seelemann and Daniele Misso

Words
Laura Houseley

Production

Rasmus Leseberg
Torsten Rötzsch


Exhibitions

︎︎︎ Fokus: The Series, Curated by Laura Houseley, Vienna Design Week, 2023

︎︎︎ Ich bin Ganz von Glass, Marianne Brandt Award, Industriemuseum Chemnitz, 2018







Design Studio
Johanna Seelemann

Leipzig (DE) — Reykjavík (IS)
Hauptstrasse IX
DE-04416 Markkleeberg
 
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