More than 50 emerging designers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have showcased furniture and products at the Emerge exhibition at Singapore Design Week.
On display as part of the FIND design fair at Singapore's Marina Bay Sands & Expo and Convention Centre, Emerge was curated by Design Anthology founder Suzy Annetta.
This year, which marks the third edition of Emerge, designers were invited to create pieces under the theme These Precious Things. Many focused on reusing existing materials.
Emerge took place at the FIND design fair during Singapore Design Week
Interior designer Georgina Foo, who together with architectural designer Genevieve Ang runs design studio Gin&G, showed side tables made from rice husks and a chair and light made partly from eggshells. "We are a spatial design studio, and we also do object and furniture design," Foo told Dezeen. "One really key belief for our studio is that we're very focused on sustainability.
"We experiment a lot with materials and in particular alternative materials that might be able to help us and the people we design for live a bit more consciously," she continued.
Gin&G's chair (lower right-hand corner) was made from eggshells
Foo and Ang used materials from its client, who runs a biomaterial company, to create its Emerge furniture pieces.
"The idea for the design of this was to minimise the waste and be very efficient with the material," F...