Untitled Object for Storage by Sigurd Nis Schelde. Contribution to The Mindcraft Project 2024. Photo Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Untitled Object for Storage by Sigurd Nis Schelde. Contribution to The Mindcraft Project 2024. Video Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Membrane Lamps by Sigurd Nis Schelde.: A handmade series of lamps. Photo Credit: Michael Rygaard.

Structural Storage by Sigurd Nis Schelde. A cabinet using semi transparent mesh to create a play between the objects function and sculptural characteristics. Photo Credit: Pim Top.

Tall Lamp I by Sigurd Nis Schelde. A sculptural approach to a lighting object with casting as a focal point. Photo Credit: Pim Top.

Structural Chair by Sigurd Nis Schelde. The object pairs standardised and industrial elements with handmade ornamentation to create an archetypical, yet distinctive piece of sculptural furniture. Photo Credit: Pim Top.

3D Printed Lamp by Sigurd Nis Schelde. Photo Credit: Sigurd Nis Schelde.

Counter for Kernemilk by Sigurd Nis Schelde. Photo Credit: Sigurd Nis Schelde.

Sigurd Nis Schelde. Photo Credit: Benjamin Lund.

Sigurd Nis Schelde — Designer

“I see my work as a way to explore, just as much as a way to express or solve a problem. Generally I focus on merging these explorations with design typologies. The explorations are very broad, so a big focus is on how to synthesise impressions, images and ideas into objects.”

About:

Working between the communal workshop of Godsbanen and an abandoned motorcycle shop within the centre of Aarhus, designer Sigurd Nis Schelde utilises the diversity of his working environments to produce lighting, furniture and objects that are simultaneously complex and refined. The driving focus within his practice is that of exploration – both within manufacturing and materiality, but also through a database of influences, from contemporary culture to industrial processes and forms of craft. Projects intertwine artistic expression with functional typologies through a deliberate eclecticism of influences and themes; Schelde boiling down seemingly incompatible ingredients to form a single object or body of work. This confluence of ideas and impressions allows Schelde to continue to push his practice in new and unexpected directions, gaining new skills whilst resulting in his own contemporary take on archetypal design silhouettes.

Part of Mindcraft:

2024

Instagram:

@sigurd.schelde

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