Triibuvineer

For some reason, good ideas usually come when something goes wrong. This is what happened to Helen Teigar, the creator of Triibuvineer, during her studies in furniture design. When making a bent piece of plywood for one of the competition works, it suddenly broke and had to be replaced quickly and creatively due to a lack of original material. By gluing two different shades of wood veneer, she achieved a surprisingly exciting result. A few days later, when she found a folk costume skirt in her closet, the idea to create “a color layered plywood skirt” came to her mind. An idea is one thing, but implementation is something else. Experiments have shown that thin layers of wood are not as easy to repaint, as the wood is like a filter that prevents the paint particles from moving forward. To solve this problem, Helen conducted a thorough study within the framework of her diploma thesis “Laminated Plywood Inspired by Folk Striped Skirts”, developed the painting equipment, the material concept “Striped Plywood” and presented it for the first time in the design solution of the Estonian National Museum’s speaker.