SALTSCAPES
Investigating salt as a building material
AWARDS Future Icons ND Selects Award, July 2025
MATERIAL ARCHIVE Sea salt composite sample, Heatherwick Studio
Saltscapes is a collection of furniture and homeware made from salt. In response to resource scarcity and environmental strain, the series explores how this abundant yet overlooked material could be applied to design and architecture. Through crystallization and composite fabrication methods, the work examines salt's physical, mechanical, and aesthetic properties, suggesting new possibilities for its use. Two complementary fabrication modes structure the research: crystallization, where salt accumulates on structural frameworks over time, and composites, where salt is bound and cast into stable forms.
EXHIBITIONS 2026 Future Icons Selects, London Craft Week, 83 Rivington Street, London, UK
2025 Material Matters, Space House, London, UK
2025 Future Icons ND Selects, 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
One method is emergent and self-growing, the other engineered and mold driven. Together they frame salt as an active, scalable material system with structural strength and versatility. The work questions assumptions about permanence, value, and what constitutes a resource.
FEATURES 2025 “From salt to avocado waste: how far can material experimentation go?”, DesignWanted
2025 “Material Matters 2025: Seven Sustainable Highlights in London”, Archipanic
2025 “The 25 Best Shows At London Design Festival This Year”, The Times UK