It requires courage and skill to be just as fervent with her inner world as with the around you who goes beyond their control. In moments of chaos, the voice can cut the noise and discover a heartbeat that is worth exploring to the fullest. Immersed in an intimate moment when he fixed the abundance of thrown away shells – perfect calcium carbonate structures that were thrown after a single use, Felicia Neuhof set up a separation. At the same time, there was an inner desire to rediscover and realize nature, slowly but safe.
And so Neuhof's kitchen became her first laboratory: “What has appeared is not only a material, but also a philosophy: our sustainable future lies in recognizing the overlooked potential in what already exists, not only new materials. When others see the basis for our built environment.” Neuhof tells. A handful of years later on the ascent by her designer christened the christened aptly Shellf liveThe winner of the Terra Carta Design Lab Award 2024 has grown through her relentless spirit. The second edition of Designwanted's is dedicated to the material innovation EXPAND The exhibition, which takes place during the Milan Design Week 2025, will highlight this BoyhockerNeuhof's most recent arrest and maybe her complicated so far.
In essence, life in Shellf shows how materials do not end – instead you reach a transformation point. Neuhof thinks about how “It is a bit profound to take a material at its” end of life “and reveal its next chapter. Every shell bears the story – the ocean it filtered, the restaurant that goes through it, the food it made available.” Due to her creations and opportunities in which other waste sees, the American designer shapes compassionate stories that are rooted in rejuvenation.
The Risd graduate on a 15 hectare farm with her family in rural Woodstock, Vermont, in Vermont, which is populated by almost 3,000 people, shares the graduate of RISD how “Nature was not separated from life; it was life itself. What prompted me to investigate material was witness to the extreme – the life of the country, in which everything is reused until it falls apart, compared to commercial design, in which perfection is only expected to take hours.”
As complex and triggered that may be side by side when it is in the ocean state after inspiration and studio and its production in 50 Sims, inspect and metabolize the coastal environments and metabolize them carefully. Her whole face lights up when she bilomically alludes to the “Graduate colors in tide zones, the structural and geometric brilliance of mussels, the transformations at the meeting of the elements.”
Boje was inspired by the tidal landscapes of Rhode Island – the transition from bank to the sea. Neuhof works in a place with such deep connections to seafood and maritime traditions and can be found “It constantly reminds that these colors tell stories about the place, ecosystem and culture. It is something honest to let these local materials speak for themselves.”
The Bujel stool conveys how waste materials can exceed conventional alternatives in an unexpected way. During the craft and perfection, the designer found that “Adaptations in temperature and processing produced characteristic material properties that serve both functional and experimental purposes.” The seat is made entirely of thrown away shells and is defined by its dynamic presence and unique abundance of colors.
Neuhof does not add a colored agent and describes how “Everything they see comes from the mussels themselves. Different species create these different tones Oysters have this pearl mutual quality, shells bring blue-grayAnd Mussels offer warmer tones. The ocean has already created this perfect palette. “
What has become of central importance for the approach of the innovator is how she understands the experimenting process in its own way and how sensitive to the materials with which she is working with inherent – – –“Everything that did not work for an application could be resumed in the next stack. There is no failure, just material that is waiting for its next iteration. The adoption of the intelligence already existing in natural materials instead of enforcing given results has become the key. “
Neuhof ensures that Shellf Life is built as a comprehensive model and not as a studio on a product portfolio. It comes from what she is as an artist and creator and her surroundings: “My architectural training helps me to combine the points between materials, structures and systems. Rhode Island's unique ecosystem – where seafood culture, production of heir and design innovation create the perfect basis for this vision.
Basically, it is their championship and their belief that they show Neuhof to let their fascinating stories tell. When she poetically turns it out, she sees her role as “More about listening than about the priority – to understand which properties and stories already exist, and then find ways to lift them instead of covering them up.” It is all the more sensible that Shellf's life comes from a moment of clarity in its raw state.
The not assignable debut by Shellf Life's Boje will take place in the upcoming improvement of Designwanted during the Milan Design Week 2025 in Basicvillage via Dell'Aprica 12, 20158, Milan, Italy.