Leather Like Wood
Leather Like Wood Multifunctional containers by Elena Tarabakina is a winner of the 2017 Iron A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design.
Leather Like Wood is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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Elena is a footwear designer with an eye for sublime aesthetics and texture. She was inspired by the sheer quantity of waste materials in the studio and manufacturing process and through experimentation with leather offcuts has developed a new material, ‘leather like wood’, which can be used in a series of luxury applications from accessories and footwear to interiors.
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Leather Like Wood by Elena Tarabakina
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Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award Winner in 2017.
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Leather Like Wood Multifunctional containers
Leather Like Wood is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Leather Like Wood is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Leather Like Wood is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Elena Tarabakina
Graduated in 2016, Elena is a Russian designer based in London. Her final collection of Fashion Artefacts exposes the interaction in between such controversial notions as luxury and refuse. Elena is successful footwear designer with an experience of leather manufacture process. The insight of the industry problem such as an enormous amount of leather waste influenced her collection. She was inspired by the sheer quantity of waste materials in the studio and manufacturing process and through experimentation with leather offcuts has developed a new material, ‘leather like wood’, which can be used in a series of luxury applications from accessories and footwear to interiors. Combined with other non-traditional materials of rubber, plastic and wood, Elena is demonstrating a feeling of desire and splendor that is possible to achieve through processes that are mindful of their environmental impacts.
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Leather Like Wood
A design studio concerned on making positive changes in the manufacture process through material research and development. By exploring alternative ways of material application studio develop treatment techniques which would be beneficial for the manufacturer, customer and environment.
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