Lovely bones: ECAL unveils primitive work in Milan

‘It was about going back to basics,’ ECAL’s Milos Ristin tells LS:N Global. Raw materials collected from the sea such as shark skin and shards taken from whale carcasses such as bone and tooth were used as resources.

‘It didn’t make sense to do things in a pragmatic way, simply because the environment didn’t invite us to follow that path,’ says designer Brynjar Siguroarson. Using only the primitive tools available to them, the designers developed a series of sculptural functional pieces, all holding the raw markings of their origin. The primitive collection includes Hrefna, an object composed from the skull of a minke whale, and Hákari, a collection of intricate blades made from the razor sharp teeth of the north Atlantic Greenland shark. 

For other examples of the sensitive use of animal bio-products, see Studio FormaFantasma’s project Craftica for Fendi, presented at the latest Design Miami/Basel. 

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