{"id":4446,"date":"2019-06-21T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kikiandjoost.com\/store\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:00:12","slug":"surface-community-10-female-design-council-makers-define-legacy-on-their-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kikiandjoost.com\/store\/2019\/06\/21\/surface-community-10-female-design-council-makers-define-legacy-on-their-own-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Community: 10 Female Design Council Makers Define Legacy\u2014on Their Own Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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COMPILED BY LAINEY R. SIDELL<\/a>May 13, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a legacy? How is one forged? What does it mean to have one? To celebrate the Female Design Council\u2019s (FDC) debut exhibition \u201cDeeper than Text,\u201d<\/a> on view at 1stdibs Gallery through May 31, 10 makers answer those questions on their own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felicia Ferrone
<\/strong>Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a designer, entrepreneur, and professor, I have forged my own path, rather than waiting to be \u2018asked to dance.\u2019 By creating my own brand, I have been able to make the self-initiated work I wanted, creating a means to an end in the hopes that others will see that they can create their own futures as well.\u201d
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Alexandra Rowley
<\/strong>Artist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMuch of my work is obliquely autobiographical and about process. In that regard, the notion of legacy resonates literally\u2014in terms of the familial themes I am engaging, the thread that runs from generation to generation\u2014and in terms of materiality. The materials I use to make my work are as much about reaching back as reaching forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiki van Eijk
<\/strong>Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe in building legacy intentionally; it\u2019s something that happens organically throughout one\u2019s career. Design is an intuitive practice which follows a humble and endlessly inquisitive process. At the core, I believe that if you are honest to the intention and the process, you are leaving behind the best of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen Chekerdjian
<\/strong>Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have never really worked with the idea of legacy in my mind, unless we are talking about our work as part of the future archeologies. Then, yes. But it is more about what traces do we want the future to find from our civilization. What we find today in museums is our way of living; our objects can tell a lot about us. I believe that our work is much more anthropological, trying to understand who we are and what is the meaning of all what surrounds us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lora Appleton
<\/strong>Founder, FDC and kinder MODERN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLegacy is not something I seek to create. I aim to make idea-provoking work, and I embark to make change in my industry and highlight the incredible work of women past, present, and future. I hope my legacy will be positivity: encouraging those to help others, in creating a beautiful and giving human who will be my best legacy, and being remembered as a leader, one who would speak up for others who didn\u2019t have a voice, because after a lot of struggle, I can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myra von Busekist
<\/strong>Founder, MYK Berlin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe legacy can only be seen in the context of global challenges. Sustainability must be one of the first virtues. It seems important to me to maintain a certain nonchalance and mildness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can combine an aesthetic level with a critical one: The \u2018hunted\u2019 Pompon Tiger also reminds us of how to deal with the threatened original; so, in turn, I make a small political contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malene Barnett
<\/strong>Founder, Malene B<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I grow older, legacy is even more important to me. Historically, the legacies of black women artists and designers have been overlooked, undervalued, and underrepresented.  Because of this, I\u2019ve taken a conscious effort to change this narrative by dedicating my art and design practice honoring the experiences of black women in African and the diaspora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helena Sultan and Natasha Sultan
<\/strong>Konnekt Furniture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe find the idea of legacy empowering and are proud to present a female legacy of three generations. Historically, legacies have been reserved for men. In charting her own legacy, our respective mother and grandmother, an artist, signed her work with a masculine version of her name. Much of our inspiration is owed to her. She\u2019s handed down a specific eye and sensibility that dominate our work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, and Hillary Petrie
<\/strong>Egg Collective<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe stories we tell hold great significance. What stories, and whose stories, are carried forward and shape the future. Therefore, we need to make sure we are telling great, robust, delicate, complicated, beautiful, and diverse truths that reflect the complex richness of this moment in time. In our practice, we think often about what we create, and what we leave behind. Our designs are part of our legacy, and, therefore, we see them as a chance to carve out a space, or spaces, for future generations of designers, craftsmen and women, entrepreneurs, and dreamers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Song
<\/strong>Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe live in a highly disposable culture\u2014everything has a shelf life\u2014but it feels particularly abbreviated and clipped right now. What I offer, hopefully, is a bit of a refutation of that [dynamic by creating work] that says something for a longer period of time, and to a wider audience. But only time really dictates what stays and what disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zizipho Poswa
<\/strong>Founder, Imiso Ceramics<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLegacy,<\/em> for me, means honoring my roots as a Xhosa woman who grew up under Apartheid, while celebrating how far I have come. In Xhosa society, success is shared. So straddling worlds carries burdens too\u2014I have to balance multiple roles and obligations to myself, my family, and my larger community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeeper than Text\u201d is on view at 1stdibs Gallery (269 11th Ave. Lobby 4, 7th Floor) through May 31.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Female Design Council Courtesy 1stdibs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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