![]() ![]() Bethan has been invited to run public workshops at Boisbuchet, V&A, Tate Britain, Vienna Design Week, IN Residence, Design Shanghai, alongside guest speaking at many international fairs around the world from Tokyo to Toronto. Throughout her career Bethan has sought to engage with the educational system, teaching giving lectures and workshops at many well-known universities including RCA, ECAL and Central St Martins. Like every hoarder-slash-collector, you’ll be here forever, because everything has a special and unique story attached to it. Bethan has works in the permanent collections of Wellcome collection London (Epidemic Jukebox in partnership with Kin design) V & A, London (Toothpaste bag for Valextra) Dresden State Art Collections, Germany (Friends bed) Abet Laminate Museum, Italy (Playtime table ) and Mudac Switzerland ( Totem ). I’m Bethan Laura Wood, and welcome to my home. Her work has been exhibited in institutions including: the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood Swiss Institute New York Daelim Museum, Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art, MOT, Tokyo, ICA London and The Design Museum London. The British designer Bethan Laura Wood’s apartment is on the second floor of a 1925 Art Deco building in East London that has powder pink stairwells, mint green window frames and baby blue accents. Bethan has been commissioned by and collaborated with a variety of international partners. She is interested in critical approaches to achieving sustainability within mass consumption and the production-driven context of the design industry.Bethan Laura Wood obtained a MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art, under the tuition of Jurgen Bey and Martino Gamper, since 2011 she has worked with the prestigious Nilufar Gallery. Bethan explores these relationships and questions how they might become cultural conduits. Often influenced by her local surroundings, Wood will incorporate characteristics of her current residence. Known equally for her fantastical and bold personal style, the invention and attention to detail she demonstrates in her work is something she clearly lives. Bethan is fascinated by the connections we make with the everyday objects that surround us and, as a collector herself, likes to explore what drives people to hold onto one particular object while discarding another. Fascinated by collections of everyday objects, Bethan Laura Wood creates products that explore and re-contextualize elements of the mundane. In his book Il design italiano degli anni ‘50 (The Italian design from the 1950s. Residencies and location-based projects have become an important factor in her design process, often working in response to her location, in collaboration with local manufacturers, or reflecting back into her work the visual and material culture particular to that area. Nilufar and Domus tell the story of a living room featuring BBPR, Franco Albini and Bethan Laura Wood, between collecting and archive: two icons of the past and a contemporary piece, brought together for the first time in the same shot. Bethan Laura Wood has run as a multidisciplinary studio since 2009 characterised by materials investigation, artisan collaboration and a passion for colour and detail. ![]()
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