Project SOUL

Nhu Nguyen

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Romanticize furniture by transforming contemporary material to recreate traditional patterns.

I’ve spent 8 years away from home
I immerse myself in the western culture
I drifted away.


Who am I? Where is my SOUL?

I re-learn my Vietnamese culture
I learn craftsmanship, tradition
I learn patterns, symbols, materials

Patterns can be tangible


Exert sensorial feelings


Pattern, as a visual artifact and a vestige of culture


An expression, an experience.

THE MAKING

Patterning with plywood, undervalued, industrial, contemporary.

Cut, laminate, clamp,

cut, laminate, clamp.

How to pattern with plywood:

Plywood of any size
Cut into 1″ strips
1″ strip for lamination
Turn strips onto the end-grain side
Laminate sideways
Cut 1″ strips at a 60-degree angle

Lamination result

I reinterpret patterning on furniture

Armoire holds stories & pieces of identity


Meaningful & ageless

INTRODUCING:

Mơ is a piece of my soul.

Mơ lives in your bedroom: private, personal

1 door, 2 doors

gold, glass, reflection


Mơ fills the room with warmth and shines.

Features:


Mơ is for you and yourself.

Fill Mơ with pieces of memory, your identity, and your culture.

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Nhu Nguyen

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Nhu (/nu/) is a Vietnamese industrial designer who approaches design with a practical yet poetic and romantic scope. Nhu works with tactile media while incorporating innovative solutions to traditional making processes.

Design for PRACTICALITY
Design for COMFORT
Design for SELF-EXPRESSION
Design for a SENSORIAL EXPERIENCE

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