Fragments of time - objects

Art Nouveau Cupboard

My practice moves between autonomous art and contemporary design, using casting as a way to translate architectural history into tactile, sculptural objects. I work with imprints of ceilings, floors, ornaments, and fragments of built heritage, capturing their memory in soft materials. By transforming these architectural traces, I explore how the past can be reinterpreted, reactivated, and given new meaning in the present.

The Art Nouveau Cupboard is rooted in this approach. Inspired by a cast of an Art Nouveau ceiling, the original ornament reappears in eight rubber doors held within a wooden frame. By casting the doors around the corner, they move in a subtly choreographed way: when opened, the rubber folds inward and the Libelle motif gradually unfolds, as if it briefly lifts off from the piece.

The tall steel legs echo the elegance and verticality characteristic of the Art Nouveau style. By translating a historical ornamental fragment into a functional object, the cabinet creates a new relationship between past and present, between memory and use. It acts as a sculptural shrine — a place to hold personal and meaningful objects.

Produced in an edition of five.