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Stillness Corner with Collective Sonson
2020
In 2020, I co-founded Collective Sonson with artist Trần Thảo Miên and designer Linh Trịnh.
We created a set of home decor objects titled Stillness Corner that comprises of a copper tea-table, a set of rattan mat and indigo-dyed room divider.
Throughout this year-long project and an overall two-year journey with Sonson, I learned a lot about crafting a practice at the intersection of nature, human and the mind.
At the same time, there were learning-through-experience sessions of traditional craft techniques such as copper-making, indigo-dye, beeswax batik, rattan-making and ceramic-making.
Although I am no longer a member of Collective Sonson, these stay as great memories and precious lessons learned.
In 2020, Stillness Corner won First Prize and Voters' Choice at the first season
of Designed by Vietnam - Vietnam Design Week 2020. Later, it was selected
to be displayed at Temple of Literature during Vietnam Design Week 2021.
(Photos left & right below by Elle Decoration Vietnam.)
"For long, a spiritual corner is an essential part of every Vietnamese house, whether in humble-sized apartment or in huge mansions. This particular space is often reserved for worshipping to communicate with ancestor and the gods. However, with modern day’s ever changing and hectic lifestyle, spiritual habituation also embodies being still to preserve balance and return to our inner selves.
Our Stillness Corner is a corner that has never officially existed in the Vietnamese way of living, a space specializes for the stillness and meeting of the minds, infused in the trinity of People – Nature – Spirit."
Detail of our copper tea-table.
Stillness Corner in Temple of Literature during VNDW 2021.
The making of our tea-table top.
Sonson Open Studio at our temporary studio in 2021 in Hạ Hồi.
Field trip to rattan-making village in Kim Sơn, Ninh Bình, 2020.
