Whose going to SAVE OUR SOULS?
by MA
SOS makes harsh, beautiful furniture with a bittersweet aesthetic.
Photography courtesy Save Our Souls
MA is always in search of emerging designers and hearing the stories behind the products they create. In 2007 MA opened a small studio near London for our European operations and to break bread with new creative talent making a mark in international design.
Product designer Johannes Carlstrom and ceramicist Magdalena Nilsson of Swedish company Save Our Souls makes harsh, beautiful furniture with a bittersweet aesthetic. Dark does matter and needs not be forgotten. So in addition to being desirable and functional, SOS designs stand as a reminder to the pain inflicted onto the planet.
Their expressive furniture carries the weight of world with controversial names like “Drops”, created in the shape of black drops of oil, and the “Lighting” shelves with their harsh edges made of thin metal sheets. One of SOS’s pieces from their first collection called, “Fucking Far From OK” (FFFO), debuted at the 2006 Stockholm Furniture Fair. FFFO’s design was influenced in part by, preceding natural and human-made disasters like the tsunami and regional wars. Since exhibiting at Salone Satellite in Milan, SOS is busy designing new products and adding more colors to its existing range.