<b>Architonic caught up with Bähler to discuss the genesis of the project and why ceramic as a material is so interesting to him.</b> <b>Could you say a few words about ‘Volumes, Patterns, Textures and Colors’, the collection that has recently seen you win the Grand Prize Interieur Awards 2016?</b> The idea for the project started in 2013 in the Netherlands, during a residency at the EKWC (the European Ceramic Work Centre). I was experimenting with ceramic for the first time and it caught me. I wanted to create big volumes in order to have a surface to create patterns, and in doing so found out this technique with a latex foil that deforms, but at the same time gives form to the volume and the pattern of the piece. I presented the project for the first time in 2013 in a variation of three different volumes and fifteen patterns. During a later residency at CERCCO, the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics in Geneva, I decided to continue with the work and… continue
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