Silva 2021

For: Espoo City

Silva -objects are your personal forest in a pocket. They are designed to help with calming and focusing as well as serve as a decorative object. Finely hand picked and then hand crafted from the finnish coarse woody debris with respect to the finnish forests. 

Silva -objects may help you calm, focus and connect with Finnish nature. Silva activates your senses with a woody forest scent, different textured surfaces and beautiful patterns made by saprotrophs. Every piece is unique. 

During the making process special attention were put into sustainability of the products. A little amount of wood were picked from different locations so it wouldn’t cause too much harm for the ecosystems, the pieces were then handcrafted and processed without chemicals. Therefore, Silva -objects are biodegradable.

Silva -objects are outcome of Anna van der Lei’s Experimental design -course (2020). The course was a part of my design bachelor studies in Aalto University. In 2021 I had the pleasure to work with the city of Espoo and make them a batch of Silva -objects for them to give out as corporation gifts.