Peter Marigold shows his “chaotic design” in Brazil

Designer from London gave a lecture and workshop in Bento Gonçalves (RS) invited by Orchestra Brasil, a project to encourage exports. 
 
The visit from the English designer Peter Marigold to Bento Gonçalves (RS) provided a multiple experience of creation to professionals and students of design and architecture. Invited by Orchestra Brasil, a project aimed to encourage exports organized by Sindmóveis (Furniture Industry Association of Bento Gonçalves) in partnership with Apex-Brasil (Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), Marigold gave a seminar and ran a series of workshops on November 6 and 7 as part of the activities of the Design Week. 
 
Peter Marigold lived in Brazil for eight months and made a point of speaking Portuguese during his stay in Bento Gonçalves. This was the first time he visited southern Brazil. During the Thinking and Making seminar, the designer revealed his creative process and the history behind his objects, describing his experiments and the reasons that led to several of this works. 
 
Born in London in 1974, Peter Marigold has experience in creating set designs for the theater and, since 2005, he has worked with furniture design. He graduated from Design Museum in London and has an MA in Product Design from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London. His works have been exhibited in major trade fairs including the London Design Festival, Milan Furniture Fair, Design Miami, Stavanger (Norway), MoMA (New York) and 21_21 Design Sight (Tokyo).
 
The projects he presented in Bento Gonçalves included the Make/Shift shelving system, consisting of wedged shaped modules that expand and contract to fill different size gaps. With this product, Marigold exemplified his desire to express through furniture the different options of symmetry and asymmetry. “My creative process is chaotic, completely experimental. I like to think that within a piece of work there are many others to be explored,” he says. 
 
The designer also ran three series of the Waste Wood Orchestra workshop, which encouraged participants to produce musical instruments from waste material produced in furniture companies. Besides visiting a local furniture company, Marigold also learned about Casa Brasil, a design trade fair that takes place every two years in Bento Gonçalves and will have its next edition in August 2013.
 
The Orchestra Brasil project promotes the competitive inclusion of suppliers of the woodworking sector in the international market in a sustainable way. In 2012, it started to organize actions aimed at promoting the Brazilian design service abroad. This year the designers that take part in the project will participate in the Design Miami exhibit, from December 4 -9.