Q: Which of your early projects were most important in establishing you as a designer?A: I think that the first project which defined my approach to design and was very visible was the bed-lamp-clock installation : When Jim Came to Paris.
The project began in 1985, but it was exhibited at the Satellite exhibition during the Milan Furniture Fair in April 1998. I stayed in Milan for the week of the exhibition so that I could explain the concept behind it in the most favourable way. It was a strange experience. Some people smiled at me. Others shook my hand and said ‘thank you’. The welcoming spirit that I wanted the project to convey was shown in so many small signs and generous gestures.
The project began in 1985, but it was exhibited at the Satellite exhibition during the Milan Furniture Fair in April 1998. I stayed in Milan for the week of the exhibition so that I could explain the concept behind it in the most favourable way. It was a strange experience. Some people smiled at me. Others shook my hand and said ‘thank you’. The welcoming spirit that I wanted the project to convey was shown in so many small signs and generous gestures.
On the other hand, another important early project was a low-tech one, little more than a gesture really, Digestion (a collection of poufs made from the cheap checked plastic bags usually used for laundry which Edra eventually put into production).
(...speaking of herself, she says that she is a designer – do-it-yourselfer. She works on developing the ideas of modularity, flexibility, hospitality and goodness.
Designing this bed, she solved her own problem:
she needed to accommodate her cousin Jim in her small flat in Paris.
She rejected all folding mechanisms to be the basis of this bed, and created a felt column, which can be turned into a bed by pulling down a zip.
A small reading lamp and an alarm clock are also part of this unusual bed. )
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