Saltscapes
Investigating salt as a building material
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Material Matters, Space House, London, UK
2025 New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2024 New Designers, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2023 Back of House, Cromwell Place Gallery, London Design Festival, London, UK
AWARDS
Future Icons ND Selects Award, 2025
Photography by Julia Brière
ABOUT
Saltscapes is a collection of furniture and homeware made from salt. In response to the growing challenges of resource scarcity and environmental strain, the series explores how this abundant yet often overlooked material could be applied to design and architecture. Through various fabrication methods, biomaterial development, and architectural techniques, Saltscapes examines the physical, mechanical, and aesthetic properties of salt, suggesting new possibilities for its use. The work lies at the intersection of the engineered and the organic, reflecting on the potential for materials that are both designed and grown.
MATERIALITY EXPERIMENTS
Exploring material culture
Materials influence the essence of an object, forming the trajectory of material culture itself. I explored crystallization on domestic objects. Specifically, humble and yet ubiquitous utensils. A seemingly unassuming utensil, its materiality has a capacity to shape our culinary experiences, social rituals, and even our perception of aesthetics. A fork, for example, is now often crafted from stainless steel.
The material has a sense of durability and reliability, embodying the values of efficiency and practicality. I crystalized various parts of the utensils to shift these sets of values. Once stable and practical, it is now jagged and precarious. The crystals add an element of visual charm, infusing the act of dining with an aesthetic pleasure. This alternative material choice instills a sense of ephemerality and playfulness.
