The Story of Foam

Once, at Disneyland, Jenny Hörman had a Clam chowder served in a sourdough bread bowl. This memory was the starting point for her idea for a coffee table. Two materials are dominant in her work––glass and Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPS), commonly used as molded packaging material for cushioning fragile items inside boxes.

»I have chosen to work with these materials, not because of their qualities but mainly because of their disadvantages. Glass is a delicate and frail material that breaks like nothing and foamed polystyrene is not easily recycled and does not biodegrade. Since this material not only floats in water but also blow in the wind it ends up along shores and contributes to the floating marine debris*.«

The coffee table consists of a thin glass that comes protected by the EPS. The EPS then becomes the body and legs of the piece.

*See the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

jenny.horman@konstfack.info

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