Placemat

´Her roots are in Sweden, her home is in France, and her soul resides in Japan. Amidst all these inspirational backgrounds, the beauty and miracles of nature are where Helena Sellergren starts when looking for her next design. “It might be the delicate veins on a leaf or the internal geometry nestled in a flower. I’m fascinated by the slightly uneven, irregular forms that express the hidden geometry of nature.” As an artist and designer, her aim is to bring us closer to our inner authentic selves through products that infuse the mundane with new qualities. She studied at Cooper Union in New York and ENSAD in Paris, and holds a degree from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She works with silkscreens on thin paper for collages, with textiles, drawing and printing, and she hand-makes organically dyed clothing. Her style can be interpreted as a subtle protest against minimalist perfection, a holistic case for the subtle memory of our roots in an ever-changing organic nature. “Not too even, not too polished. It has to retain that inner breath, that rhythm, the sheer vibration that makes it human: not too perfect, but rather, a harmonious whole.”´ View all products from Helena Sellergren