Jonas Edvard

Jonas Edvard (born 1982) is a Danish designer working in material science and applied design experiments. He investigates the raw material — its history, its cultural appropriation, the direct knowledge held in crafts — to locate the functional value of natural resources, an approach shaped by the landscape he grew up in. His objects answer the emotional value of being natural.

MYX, the mycelium textile project begun in 2012, is the clearest expression of that research: in two weeks the mycelium conquers plant material and stabilises the raw substrate, covering the structure in a fluffy skin that can be modified into a hard or flexible form. Other threads run through algae native to Denmark, the limestone quarry at Faxe and the Gesso lamp series shown with Sirin Gallery at Chart Art Fair.