Melbourne Design Week 2019 - Presented by The National Gallery of Victoria

Elk Collins St - Store Install. March 14 – 24, 2019

The National Gallery of Victoria suggested a collaboration between Studio Lehmann and Elk clothing.
From the Elk website:
Melbourne-based ceramicist and lighting designer Claire Lehmann industrialises porcelain in her lighting installation at Elk Little Collins. Operating as Studio Lehmann, Claire is influenced by non-domestic objects whose design is purely functional and unmediated for human touch, such as plumbing, air-conditioning, heating and wiring. Claire takes cues from industry to shape the finest domesticated material; porcelain. Claire’s ceramic lighting also stems from an obsession with luminosity, shape, texture, process, weight and material tolerance; she uses Bone China which is one of the finest, ‘purest’ and most luminous ceramic materials, but also the hardest to work with.

Read the full interview here:
elkthelabel.com/blogs/elk-tales/elk-x-claire-lehmann

The National Gallery of Victoria’s listing:
ngv.vic.gov.au/program/elk-x-claire-lehmann/