20/05/2022
How do the bees contribute to new designs of naturalism?
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The next matter - the discover of new materials for design
For the designer Marlène Huissoud, the resin made of saliva, wax and tree sap that honey bees secrete to seal gaps in hives is the primary material, at the centre of her sculpted exploration of our relationship with, and exploitation of, insects. Egyptians for mummification and by Russian clinics in the second world war to treat tuberculosis.
For the designer Marlène Huissoud, the resin made of saliva, wax and tree sap that honey bees secrete to seal gaps in hives is the primary material, at the centre of her sculpted exploration of our relationship with, and exploitation of, insects. Egyptians for mummification and by Russian clinics in the second world war to treat tuberculosis.
Marléne became fascinated by the qualities of the propolis produced by bees in the rubber plantations of Brazil. The tree gum the insects ingest gives the resin an unusual plasticity and a glossy black finish once the impurities are boiled off. Egyptians for mummification and by Russian clinics in the second world war to treat tuberculosis.
Marléne became fascinated by the qualities of the propolis produced by bees in the rubber plantations of Brazil. The tree gum the insects ingest gives the resin unusual plasticity and a glossy black finish once the impurities are boiled off. only for its supposed antiviral properties.
Marléne became fascinated by the qualities of the propolis produced by bees in the rubber plantations of Brazil. The tree gum the insects ingest gives the resin an unusual plasticity and, once the impurities are boiled off, a glossy black finish.
She has been approached by design houses to create simpler pieces in propolis for higher-volume production — she makes only eight of the larger pieces a year — but she will not break faith with the slow methods that produce objects whose forms appear as organic as their materials