Malgorzata Bany showcases Jesmonite tables and lamps at The New Craftsmen
Furniture maker Malgorzata Bany presents objects made from resin-based material Jesmonite in a London Design Festival exhibition at The New Craftsmen showroom in Mayfair.
Slade-trained maker Bany produces lighting and furniture using Jesmonite, a durable manmade material produced with a mineral base and water-based acrylic resin.
She is showing three side tables, a low table (she prefers the term to coffee table), a console table and two different types of lamp in two finishes.
These are complemented by a selection of accessories: bowls, platters and vases, in a natural-looking brown that resembles polished wood and plaster-toned beige.
The objects will are displayed throughout the festival as a curated room set, alongside Bany's pick of items from The New Craftsmen's collection.
The designer's sensuous pieces have a plaster-like finish, but are stronger than works made in plaster and are cool to the touch like stone. The durable material can also be cast to resemble wood, stone or other materials.
Bany began working with jesmonite on the recommendation of her former tutor when a plaster piece broke.
"It looks similar but you can do so many more things with it. You can laminate it, it's more flexible, it pigments very well. It's better than plaster for many things," she told Dezeen.
Bany's relationship with The New Craftsmen ? a retail space set up six years ago to nurture and promote British craft and its makers ? began in 2015 when she first sold a collecti...
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