Tableware _ Tree of Culture

Concept: Basse Stittgen Material: Pine lignin, cellulose & buckwheat starch Production: Basse Stittgen Cellulose and lignin are the two most common organic polymers on earth. While one is applied abundantly, the other remains largely unexplored and an underutilised by-product. Basse Stittgen uses it to bind buckwheat mulch, binding two scraps into one piece of value. With this, he made table objects for the exhibition with a clear reference to the two most traditional and abundant resources of Ukraine - grain and forest. Next to that, a soundscape resonates from membranes made from lignin and cellulose that evoke the organic nature of the material and situate it in a dialogue with its industrial processing.