Louise Campbell: Creative in half asleep
One rubs his eyes in wonderment and thinks: You should sit on it? Louise Campbell has a knack for designing armchairs reminiscent of bird nests, origami or handkerchiefs. Sometimes it falls back on the traditional Nordic material wood, but reduces it to thin strips, which are artfully interconnected; Sometimes it stabilizes thick felt with hundreds of standard gelatine leaves. There is no material from which she could not make any furniture. The designer is not sitting in her Copenhagen studio and "working out" her designs. The daughter of an Englishman and a Danish girl is about to fall asleep when she falls asleep: "The best ideas come to my mind," says Louise Campbell. "When I'm left to my imagination, I can effortlessly jump between design variations, and my imagination is like a big picture library where I can browse." Only in order to realize her creative fantasies Louise Campbell draws on the know-how of her training at the London College of Furniture and the Copenhagen Institute for Industrial Design. Computer animations are created step by step, then the first prototypes and finally, in close cooperation with renowned Scandinavian or Italian companies, the finished products.
So well known is Louise Campbell through the establishment of the official residence of the Danish Minister of Culture. The workplaces in this open-plan office can be separated by curtains - oversized changing rooms not very unlike. The highlight: Each little room has its own color for curtains, furniture and lighting. In the hallway in front of it, silver-colored ball lights are hanging next to real punching balls under the ceiling. The Minister and his staff can - if necessary - drain their pent-up energy. Energy: Louise Campbell has plenty of that. And that flows into ever new projects. Lighting, furniture and interior design tasks await their realization. Unfortunately, that does not work in your sleep.
