FURNITURE DESIGN
THE BODY CHAIR
The Body chair encourages people to find their choice of sitting by discarding learned cultural norms. Trusting in their own body to create the most individual way of sitting. The mattress-like structure of the chair is made by filling canvas tubes with rice. This structure allows the chair to be formed into reconfigurable rigid forms. The Body chair has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe, most recently during Bratislava Design Week. It has been featured in many publications, such as Dezeen and Wallpaper Magazine.
LIFELINES COLLECTION
The first instalment of the The Lifelines collection includes paintings and a chair. In this series, I explore paintings of my mental landscapes and reconfigure them into a new, intentionally fragmented order. Through this process, she examines the idea that the tapestry of our life journey is not a continuous whole, but rather a series of disjointed experiences and emotions - stitched together to form the fractured, yet deeply meaningful, mental landscapes that shape our personal narratives.
The Lifelines Chair can be read like a book. Designed to change with your mood, it lets you turn the paintings as if they were pages, creating a new scenery whenever you wish. The chair is part of the Lifelines collection, where an entire painting is cut into pieces and then sewn back together in a new form.
SOFT STONES
Soft stones concrete seating and armrests are shaped by the human body. The collection explores people´s interaction with the built urban environment and expresses the need for individualism in public space. Soft Stones collection was created for One Design Week in 2016 and exhibited in Helsinki Design Museum in 2017 as part of exhibition Enter and Encounter.
MARKS OF BEING
Marks of Being - Ceramic wares are created using the artist’s body as a tool to shape and decorate the pieces. Kirsi Enkovaara has formed the molds for these objects using her elbows and fingertips as tools. Through these works, Enkovaara explores the often unnoticed, everyday ways our bodies interact with the world - and the physical and emotional traces we leave behind.
THE MIRROR
The Mirror collection distorts reflections, challenging the viewer's perception of self-image and inviting a deeper exploration of identity. This series not only examines the personal and psychological relationship one has with their reflection but also interrogates the mirror as an object and symbol. Historically and psychologically, mirrors have been linked to self-awareness and introspection, yet in popular culture, they often symbolize vanity and superficiality. The collection plays with this tension, offering a complex narrative that bridges perception, reality, and the constructed self.
I am mirrors have been exhibited at London Design Festival and featured in Disegno Magazine.