Kit Kemp Design Studio unveils partnership with Schotten & Hansen
Kit Kemp Design Studio has partnered with Schotten & Hansen to showcase a pioneering new product at Clerkenwell Design Week 2024.
In celebration of Schotten & Hansen’s 40th anniversary in 2024, Minnie Kemp, Design Director of Kit Kemp Design Studio, has designed the Mythical Forest Salon, an immersive space centred around the Pit-A-Pat table. Using a magnetic technique developed by Schotten and Hansen, new designs and colours can be swapped into the template and the design of the table and floor beneath.
Throughout the space, Kit Kemp Design Studio has designed a series of furniture pieces that demonstrate the beauty in the natural imperfections of wood, including the Tête-à-Tête bench carved from a chestnut tree chosen by Minnie Kemp on her visit to Schotten & Hansen’s headquarters in Bavaria; the Mushroom Table, previewing Schotten & Hansen’s forthcoming Graincut Empire finish; a collection of layered veneer frames telling the story of Schotten & Hansen; and two oversized totem sculptures of varying heights illustrating new vibrant veneer colours.
“We are delighted to be at Clerkenwell Design Week again in what is a significant year for Schotten & Hansen as we celebrate 40 years,” says Torben Hansen, founder of Schotten & Hansen. “Partnering with Kit and Minnie to create this space that tells the story of Schotten & Hansen through the products themselves has been thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring. We have been working with Kit Kemp Design Studio since the early 2000s, and they really are part of the Schotten & Hansen extended family.”
Minnie Kemp adds: “Wooden finishes and pieces are key to all our projects – it’s the element of nature, its rawness and warmth that really completes a space. Having this opportunity to explore and play with Schotten & Hansen’s colours in wood and veneers, making something quite spectacular out of something quite ordinary, has been an exhilarating process.”
