Ariane Prin mixes metal dust into Rust homeware range
London Design Festival 2015: London product designer Ariane Prin has launched her debut homeware collection, which includes pots, trays, vases and jewellery boxes with a rusty tinge.
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The designer mixed metal dust with Jesmonite – a gypsum and resin composite material – to create the handmade range, meaning every product has unique textures and colours depending on the metal dust oxidisation.
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Dezeen previously featured Prin's work as part of micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, which showcased a different designer's work each day for 30 days. She used waste material generated by Royal College of Art students to produce drawing materials for future students.
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Rust continues Prin's interest in leftover materials, and the designer obtained the metal dust used from key cutting and metalworking workshops across London.
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"I am the kind of person who can't throw anything away, believing that it will be of some use later on," she told Dezeen. "This is how the leftovers from a project can be the starting point of another."
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The idea for the Rust collection came about while Prin was experimenting with combinations of leftover materials in her studio to create variations in texture and colour shades.
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"One week later I came back and noticed the freckles which appeared on the Rust samples," she said. "I immediately saw the potential behind this. It was a eureka moment, I felt so excited."
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The Rust pieces take around three days to complete, without taking into account the rusting process.
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"Even if I'm not at the studio the pieces are working and oxidising while I'm not there, which is quite convenient time management," Prin told Dezeen.
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"These Rust samples still work for me today as a colour library I am playing with before making a piece, and I'll keep on making them as there is still so much to explore."
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The collection will be exhibited at the Herrick Gallery in Shoreditch from 19 to 27 September, as part of London Design Festival 2015.
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Prin graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011, and in addition to her own collection has worked with Jasper Conran to design tableware for Wedgwood and Waterford.
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Central Saint Martins graduate Alessia Giardino also experimented with materials to create tableware pieces that mixed concrete with pigment.
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Meanwhile Daniel Schofield designed products with untreated brass elements, allowing each item to develop a unique patina over time.