Stool "Lilla Snålan"
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DatesMade: Made 2016
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Dimensionsh x diam: Mått 45 x 35 cm
Inventory numberNMK 356/2016
AcqusitionPurchase 2016 with funds from Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
Other titlesTitle (sv): Pall "Lilla Snåland" Title (en): Stool "Lilla Snålan"
DescriptionDescription: Carl Malmsten’s chair Lilla Åland was launched in 1942. The seat is made of rod glued heartwood and triangular pieces of waste is an effect of the production. Every year c. 15,000 copies are produced, creating about 30,000 pieces of waste. The material was burned before Marie-Louise Hellgren came up with the idea of using the triangles for the Lilla Snåland stool. The hole in the middle occurs naturally when the pieces are glued together. Marie-Louise Hellgren often engages in upcycling, meaning that she refines scrap material into new products, rather than recycling used products and turning them into something else. When Stolab cuts the seats for Carl Malmsten’s chair Lilla Åland, two triangular one-decimetre pieces of first-rate heartwood are left over. These are usually burned in the factory furnace, but Marie-Louise Hellgren instead created a stool inspired by the Fibonacci code. This sequence of numbers is related to the golden ratio and is found in spiral structures in nature, including conches and sunflowers. Fibonacci numbers are numbers that are included in an integer sequence, where each number is the sum of the previous two, i.e. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, and so on
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