Fish Scales
Erik de Laurens comes from the stable of what I refer to as ‘new materialogists’. Like fashion designer Suzanne Lee with her BioCouture project, he comes from a design background and challenges the notion that material development and innovation should come purely from the science community. Not content with the use of oils, bones, meat and skin, Erik extracts even more value from fish by using the scales to create a new mouldable material.
‘Fish Feast’ was conceived while Erik was studying at the Royal College of Art, with the aim of exploring alternatives to globalization and the dependency we have on oil and therefore plastics. In his native Normandy, Erik discovered a company producing leather from fish skin, a by-product of the ...
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