Exhibition platform Ukurant has launched Perspectives, a showcase of emerging designers, in Copenhagen as part of 3 Days of Design.
Held in a high-ceilinged former library in the centre of Copenhagen, the show was curated by Ukurant founders and recent graduates Laerke Ryom, Kamma Rosa Schytte, Kasper Kyster and Josefine Krabbe Munk.
Works by 17 designers are on display at Ukurant Perspectives
Exhibition designers Frederik Gustav transformed the space, which showcases work by 17 emerging designers, to give the room the feel of a theatre.
"We see it as a technical room where we have a lot of backdrops and a lot of stage curtains that all, in different ways, set the stage for each artist and their different work," Frederik Gustav founders Frederik Weber and Gustav Dupont explained. Stage-curtain backdrops divide the room
The designs are displayed in front of individual stage curtain backdrops, held up by blue strings that criss-cross beneath the ceiling and are weighed down by sandbag-like Ukurant tote bags.
This is the Ukurant exhibition, after the initiative premiered at 3 Days of Design last year, and features pieces by upcoming designers from all over the world.
Hemp Vases can be broken down and remoulded
Among the designs on show is Kristina Lula Brown's Hemp Vases series, which were developed to make use of a hemp byproduct that otherwise would have gone to waste or been used for rabbit and horse feed.
"The vases are made from hemp hurds ? a bioproduct ...